Gunmen stuck up employees of Wireless Rush, a branch of Gizmos and Gadgets cell phone store located at upper Robb Street last evening carting away several expensive handsets and an undisclosed sum of cash.
Officials at the store could not say how many cellular phones were stolen. Manager/ Supervisor Radica Ramdeen said the bandits demanded only the expensive handsets such as the Pebble, Razr and other such brands. When they left they had collected many, the manager declared.
Police and security guards attached to the MMC Security firm showed up some 30 minutes later, but the bandits who were armed with handguns and wore masks had already disappeared.
Muniram Etwaroo, an employee at the store, said he was pulling down the shutters of the building, when a man accosted him from behind. Etwaroo said another man was already in the store posing as a customer.
After accosting him, Etwaroo said the bandit shoved him into the store and commanded him and another male employee to lie face down.
A third man then walked into the store and the bandits proceeded to assault the some four employees who were in the store at the time.
Etwaroo said the bandits stomped those who were on the floor, while grabbing several boxes with Pebble, Razr and other expensive handsets.
The robbers then accosted Ramdeen, who along with two other employees, was behind the counter. Ramdeen said one of them waved a gun in her face and demanded cash and all of the display phones.
She said she showed the man a haversack in which the phones were packed, but he ignored her.
The robber then reached down to the canister and grabbed a large sum of cash, Ramdeen said. She told Stabroek News that the money was the entire day’s sales and it had not yet been tallied.
The young woman said it would appear as though the bandits were studying their movements at the store, as the timing of their attack was precise.
“They came in at the time when we were about to close off and so they caught us off guard, ” the supervisor said.
