One of the three men who were arrested by the police on Monday following a high speed chase in the city was yesterday positively identified during an identification parade as the man who shot and robbed director of BM Soat Auto Sales, Rameez Mohammed last month.
Acting Commander of ‘A’ Division, Calvin Brutus told Stabroek News that several identification parades were held yesterday afternoon to determine if the trio was involved in any recently committed crime. During the identification parades, Frederick Boyce was positively identified in connection with the robbery on Mohammed. Boyce is expected to be charged soon and the men are scheduled for other identification parades today.
Mohammed was shot once to his left thigh and relieved of a bag containing cash around 6:30pm on October 25 in front of his Croal Street business.
At the time of the incident, he was leaving the office when he was accosted by a lone bandit. When the bandit attempted to take away the bag containing the day’s earnings, a scuffle ensued and Mohamed was shot.
The bandit made good his escape on a CG motorcycle ridden by an accomplice who had been waiting for him.
Boyce along with ex-police constable, Devon Chase, 30, of Hill Street, Albouystown, Georgetown and Eloy Livan, 28, of Lot 47 Richards Town, Lusignan, East Coast Demerara and also ‘C’ Field, Sophia were held on Monday morning with a pistol after they led police on a brief high speed chase in a vehicle outfitted with a fake licence plate.
While Chase and Livan had been initially cooperating with the investigations, Boyce only provided investigators with his name and address yesterday.
Stabroek News had previously reported that the false licence plate on the heavily-tinted grey Toyota Premio caught the attention of lawmen, who were in a police vehicle at the traffic light at the junction of Camp and Lamaha streets.
After the trio realised that they were being approached by the police, they reversed the car and sped east along Lamaha Street. They were chased by the police and intercepted at the junction of Lamaha and Republic streets after the driver of the car lost control and swerved off the road into a nearby trench.
A search of the car was carried out and the police recovered a 9 mm pistol and several matching rounds of live ammunition. A fake licence plate, “HB 7412,” was found to have been pasted over the vehicle’s original plate, “HC 7294.”
