Three bandits in the wee ours of yesterday, broke into a home in ‘B’ Field Sophia and stole a number of items valued over $600,000, leaving a family traumatized after a farewell exercise.
Speaking to Stabroek News, one of the occupants who asked for anonymity, related that the robbery happened in three minutes, around 1:15 am after they had held a farewell event for her mother who is migrating to the United States of America.
She further noted that while her mother and other relatives were asleep upstairs, she and four other persons were on the veranda of the house when she moved to make a phone call and saw one of the suspected bandits enter through the back gate.
She said that after raising an alarm two of the occupants on the front veranda came to investigate and one of the men placed a gun to one of the males while another jumped the front fence and proceeded into the yard.
She also stated that the men then entered the house, “I thought it was two but is after we end up in the house then we realize it was three a dem”.
She said that after they were brought into the house, one of the men asked “where the money deh” and she told them that they didn’t have any money, but could take whatever was within the house and go.
She said that one of the men then snatched a gold chain from the neck of one of her relatives and picked up her laptop which was in a chair in the living room.
During the commotion she said that the other occupant of the home awoke after which the bandits then searched the three rooms of the house but
