Victims of the robbery that occurred at Kingston, Corriverton early Friday morning were summoned to identify jewellery and other items belonging to them after three suspects were held several hours later during a roadblock at Weldaad, West Berbice.
The suspects who were found with a bag containing a few pieces of jewellery, an Ipod and a touch screen cellular phone that were stolen from the victims, are being held at the New Amsterdam Central Police Station.
Charges are expected to be laid shortly.
The men were cornered among thick bushes at the Weldaad foreshore at around 5.30 pm on Friday by police and public-spirited residents.
Following the robbery at Corriverton, police were on the hunt for two suspects who were recently released from prison and were said to be involved in a series of other robberies in the area.
The lawmen subsequently received information at around 5 pm that the suspects were in the car heading in the direction of Georgetown. Ranks from the Weldaad Station immediately mounted a roadblock and at around 5.30 the car was stopped and examined but the suspects had already exited.
The driver of the car was questioned but could not provide a proper explanation as to the whereabouts of the two men.
Just then a woman who heard the police questioning the driver related that the men were running through the dam.
The ranks, together with several public-spirited residents immediately gave chase but the men disappeared among some bushes. Realizing that the men had nowhere else to run, the residents started chopping the bushes down, cornering them. The driver of the car is also in custody.
The men, dressed in black and wearing masks, had entered the house at around 4.30 am on Friday by removing five louvre panes from a window on the southern side while Mohamed Khan, 62, and his wife Kareeman ‘Zoreena’ Goolmohamed, 63, were relaxing in their hammocks under the house on the northern side.
Armed with a gun and knife they terrorized and robbed the couple and two granddaughters; Fareeza Tannall, 20 and seven-year-old Aleya Smith of $1.8M cash, almost $1M in gold and diamond jewellery, two Ipods and a touch screen cellular phone.
