Armed robbers yesterday morning made off with an estimated $10 million in cash and jewellery from a pawn shop at Vigilance, East Coast Demerara.
The attack occurred at about 8:30 am at Vinod’s One Love Pawnshop, police said in a statement. During the robbery, two female sales clerks, Samantha Hitlall, 24, and Ruth Spencer, 37, were held at gunpoint and one was assaulted by the three bandits, one of whom was armed with a handgun.
Spencer told Stabroek News that a little after 8 am, she was “counting out” some money for the day’s work, when “a guy came in and asked if