Minutes after a brazen armed robbery outside Avon headquarters on Camp Street, the three suspects were arrested and police recovered some of the stolen money along with an unlicensed gun.
Two of the suspects were found hiding in a shack at Walker Terrace, West La Penitence and residents recalled hearing at least two gunshots before seeing several van loads of uniformed and plain clothes policemen. It is unclear who discharged the rounds.
Police, in a press release, said that around 12:50 hrs Daniel Joseph, a 31-year-old clerk attached to Beauty and Home Systems (the importers of Avon products), Camp Street, Georgetown, was attacked and robbed of $1.3 million. Joseph, who had the money in an envelope, was accosted by two men, one of whom was armed with a firearm, as he and two other employees were about to
