Four masked bandits armed with a gun terrorised and robbed an Albion, Corentyne family in an attack on Thursday night.
Doodranie Mohan, 46, of Lot 8, Doctor Bush, Albion, was beaten along with her son, Arvind Jhagroo and nephew, Mahesh Persaud, who were at her house when the men invaded. The bandits made off with cash, jewellery and other items and they dropped some of their booty during their escape as the load seemed to be too much.
The attack occurred around 8pm. The bandits first encountered Mohan’s son, Jhagroo, who was relaxing in the hammock under the house. “Me just see somebody run in the yard and them come to me and put the gun on me and then them beat me up in the hammock and pulled me in the kitchen and asked me where the gold and money and beat me up more,” he said, adding that a man with a gun stayed with him while the others went upstairs.
While Mohan had gone to bed, Persaud stayed up to watch television. The men tied up Persaud with the sheet that was spread on the couch and bound him so that he could not move. Next, one of them hauled Mohan out of her bed.
He “cussed me and asked me to give them my money and ring and me tell them that me ain’t get money and ring and they put me flat on the ground to lay down and them a kick me,” she said. The men, not satisfied with her answers, ransacked the house, damaging several household articles in the process, including a cabinet. The woman added that during this time she was in shock. “[I] didn’t know what to do and one time, I got up to open the window to holler (for help),” she said, adding that one of the bandits prevented her from doing. “..Them a cuss me steady—that they gonna kill me— shoot me, bore me,” she added.
The men carted off with $100,000, which Mohan said belonged to a cousin of hers, along with a quantity of gold rings and earrings and other jewellery.
They also stole a CD player, a DVD player, two cell phones and an ID Card. “Plenty other things—abbey can’t know what they took because a lot of stuff they gone with,” she added. “They break up all the dividers and kicked me and so and took the knife and shoved it on me and said if I only holler, they will bore me—they said it was Rambo knife—a long, shine knife.”
The ordeal lasted for about 10 minutes and the bandits then made their getaway. “After they run downstairs now, I started to holler and one of them said he will come back for me,” Mohan related.
The bandits dropped the CD and DVD players on the street since the load was too much apparently. The items were recovered.
A bullet cartridge left lying on the street near the home was also recovered by police, who rushed from the nearby Albion Police Station.
