Bandits, one of whom was armed with a gun stuck up a pump attendant at the Bel Air Service Station, East Coast around noon yesterday and later escaped in a waiting motor car with a cash register containing cash and a computer.
The driver of the motor car suspected to have been used in the robbery is in police custody assisting with investigations. This newspaper has also learnt that an employee is also being questioned about the circumstances surrounding the robbery.
Police said in a press release last evening that they are investigating the armed robbery during which pump attendant Compton Matthews was attacked and robbed by three men, one of whom was armed with a hand gun.
Investigations have revealed, the release said, that Matthews was at the fuel pump when the men held him at gun point before taking him into the supermarket area.
The men later fled in a waiting motor car with a cash register with a computer, $36, 000 cash and a cellular phone.
This newspaper was told that acting on information, police stopped a car fitting the description of the one used in the robbery in Georgetown and arrested the driver.
Investigations are continuing.
