Carjackers traded shots with police early yesterday morning when their getaway was interrupted by members of an alert police patrol.
Although the two carjackers managed to relieve a Sheriff Taxi Service driver of his vehicle, a tracking device installed in the car later led to its eventual recovery in Number 40 Village, Berbice.
Stabroek News was informed that sometime around 2 am, the dispatcher at the service’s base received a request for a taxi at the Prashad Nagar Police Outpost. Taxi driver Hardat Balgobin, who was on duty, went to the location