Berbice police have charged four persons following an armed robbery at D&B Sankar Candy and Confectionery shop, located at Strand, New Amsterdam.
Quincy Goodhart, 23, called ‘Ketay’ or ‘Blackie,’ Rudolph Mc Curdy called ‘Ruddy,’ Kevon Bunyon, 32, and Kurt Edwards, appeared at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, where they were not required to plead to the indictable charge instituted by Detective Sergeant Lawrence Thomas.
Presiding Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus, granted bail in the sum of $100,000 each and ordered that they report to the Central Police Station, each Tuesday at 18:00 hrs until the determination of the case.
Police alleged that on March 15, last the defendants, armed with a gun, robbed Nanda Ramkissoon Sankar of $646,340, a quantity of phone cards valued $90,000 and a gold chain which cost $420,000, totalling $1,146,340, property of Danny Sankar.
On Monday, the quartet had also appeared before the court where police instituted charges of possession of a firearm along with matching ammunition, without the relevant licences.
Bunyan and Goodhart had pleaded guilty to the charge with an explanation and were refused bail, while the remaining defendants were sent on $60,000 bail each.
According to Bunyan, he lives at Lot 620 Fort Ordnance Housing Scheme, Canje, but he took the police to Goodhart’s home at Lot 52 Stanleytown, New Amsterdam, where the police were given the gun which was dug up from under a stairway.
He told the magistrate that Goodhart had given him the gun earlier in the day and that he had it in his possession because Goodhart had asked him for a favour.
Meanwhile, Goodhart claimed that he lived at Lot 540 East Ruimveldt, where he would attend the Kingdom Hall at that location. According to him, he went to the back of a “place,” where in an unpainted building, he collected the gun.
Police Sergeant Phillip Sherriff, prosecuting, said the charges stemmed from an alleged robbery committed on the business premises of Sankar.
As a result, on March 16, last, Bunyan took police to Lot 52 Stanleytown, where he handed over the gun to the police along with one .38 live round of ammunition .
Further, he said, McCurdy and Edwards were not implicated with respect to the firearm and ammo charges as the weapon was not found in their presence.
The defendants are expected to return to court on March 31.
