-lawmen among four others remanded
Former Republic Bank employee Jamal Haynes will be spending the next six years in jail after he pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the attempted robbery of the bank’s Water Street branch that ended in a fatal shootout last Tuesday morning.
Haynes, 24, Lot 4 Norton Street, Wortmanville, Keron Saunders, 24, of 59 Burnham Boulevard, Mocha, another bank employee, Shawn Grimmond, 23, of 137 Pike Street, Kitty, police constable Gladstone George, 24, Lot 55 Princes Street Lodge, and rural constable Anfernee Blackman, 21, of 65 Laing Avenue, West Ruimveldt, were all arraigned before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in Georgetown.
The joint charge stated that the five men, while being armed with firearms, attempted to rob Republic Bank on July 4, at Water Street, Georgetown.
The suspected mastermind of the botched heist, Elton Wray, also known as ‘Peas’, 25, of Eccles, East Bank Demerara, was
