-Buxtonians help victim in hot pursuit

Four men robbed a Digicel outlet at Mon Repos yesterday and escaped in a motorcar, but swift action by a sales clerk at the outlet who gave chase resulted in two of the men being traced and apprehended at Buxton.

The residents of Buxton and a rural constable were also instrumental in the bandits being detained in the village shortly after the robbery occurred. Two of the men managed a clean getaway, but police have since arrested the owner of the motor car used in the robbery.

Police reported yesterday that three men, one of whom was armed, stormed the Digicel outlet at Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara around midday and held two female clerks and a male clerk at gunpoint. They were forced to lie on the floor while the bandits grabbed an undisclosed sum of cash, a number of cell phones and a quantity of cell phone cards. They then fled in a waiting motorcar, PHH 4904, driven by an accomplice.

The male clerk at the outlet, Anthony Singh joined a taxi and gave chase. He trailed the vehicle which headed into Buxton, along the railway embankment road. Singh briefly quit the chase and was approached by a rural constable attached to a police station in Georgetown, who was in the vicinity and made enquiries about what was happening.
Singh told the constable about the robbery and he joined the taxi and the two continued the chase. Police said the bandits realised they were being followed and abandoned the vehicle and ran. They were pursued by the constable and residents of Buxton which resulted in the apprehension of two of them. The remaining two managed to escape.