Law enforcement officials last evening arrested three men who were part of a gang that pounced on travellers forced to slow down at a ditch dug across the roadway at Rockstone, Upper Demerara River.
In a statement, the police said that at about 6pm yesterday, Joint Services ranks responded to reports received that a group of men were attacking and robbing persons traversing the roadway at Rockstone and arrested three men who were armed with cutlasses. “A ditch had been dug across the road and vehicles were being pounced upon as they slowed down at that point,” the police said. “A number of other men managed to escape as the Joint Services ranks approached,” the statement said. It added that the three men in custody will face charges shortly.
Yesterday, in Linden, a mini-bus driver told Stabroek News that he had to assist a group of miners with whom he was familiar to get passage to Georgetown because they were forced to hand over all the money they had to a group of men at the Rockstone junction.
He said that the miners were able to identify two of the men including one who they claimed was a regular troublemaker and the other who had recently completed a stint in jail. According to the man, the gang comprised about eight to ten men and some were dressed in “soldier outfit.”
Some Linden residents who are part of an ongoing protest in the community said that they learnt of a group of men along the road who were robbing trucks and buses after being informed by several of those affected upon their arrival into the town. “I glad dem ketch dem cause before they come in here and give we strength they deh out deh robbing people and giving we bad name,” one said.
