The police have arrested two of the men who allegedly carried out an armed robbery on a supermarket at Lusignan, East Coast Demerara, on Tuesday evening.
The police acted on information/ feedback received as a result of the suspect’s photos (CCTV screen grabs) that were posted on the Police Facebook page (gpf.gy) on Wednesday.
One of the suspects arrested is said to be the mastermind, and the other is said to be the one who robbed the cashier with the gun.
Commander 4C, his Deputy, along with a team from Divisions 4C and 4A, searched the homes of the two suspects at about 11 pm on Wednesday. Police found the pants, boots and hat worn by the suspect who had the gun and who robbed the cashier.
The two suspects are expected to be charged. They are:
Ryan Goodluck, a 29-year-old vendor of Herstelling Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara, and of Sussex Street, Georgetown.
Jamal Seymour, a 25-year-old mason of Sussex Street, Georgetown.
At around 7.34 pm on Tuesday, two female cashiers at the supermarket, Xie Zie Ying, age 50, and Xie Zi Xia, age 46, were robbed of a quantity of GTT and Digicel phone cards (value unknown) and an undisclosed amount of cash, the police said in a statement.
Enquiries disclosed that the four suspects arrived at the supermarket on two (Red and Black XR) motorcycles.
They parked in front of the supermarket, and two of them immediately rushed in and simultaneously held both cashiers at gunpoint. After that, they went into the cash register and took the items mentioned.
The suspects then returned to their motorcycles and escaped South on the Lusignan Access Road, the police said.
