A police statement has said that the three men who were allegedly involved in the armed robbery at King Solomon’s Royale Cambio on September 29 had several brushes with the law prior to this incident.
On that day Lawrence Mayers and Michael Witter were fatally shot and Sylvester Chan was wounded after they allegedly committed an armed robbery at King Solomon’s Royale Cambio and tried escaping from the police. According to a police statement on September 19 Mayers, Witter, Chan and Hubert Bartholomew were arrested and charged after the car they were in was stopped and searched at a roadblock at Fort Wellington, West Coast Berbice. The men were jointly charged for unlawful possession of firearms without licence. The case against the men was dismissed at the Fort Wellington Magistrate’s Court after the magistrate said that there was insufficient evidence. According to the police statement Bartholomew was on bail through a court order while Mayers, Witter and Chan were remanded to prison until the dismissal of the case.
In addition Mayers was on April 10, 2007 charged with robbery under arms committed on a businessman at Durban Street, Georgetown. He was placed on bail in that matter and an arrest warrant was issued for him after he failed to appear.
Meanwhile the lone survivor of the trio who allegedly staged the robbery at King Solomon’s Royale Cambio was remanded to prison after appearing before Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle to answer five counts of robbery under arms.
