Early morning robberies keep police busy

-woman raped, Dawn Cari Hotel attacked

Bandits armed with guns and cutlasses went on a rampage in the city and its environs yesterday, raping an Agricola woman and carting off cash and jewelry in three separate robberies.

Imagine the New Chief of Police , Commissioner of Police Winston Felix, said he does not believe in statistics. That's  a deranged person.

The spree which began with the early morning robbery of the Lucky Star Restaurant on Luisa Row and Bent Street , later saw bandits attacking the Dawn Cari Hotel in Kitty, before ending with an attack on the home of an Agricola family yesterday afternoon.

In the first attack, two men armed with a handgun and a shotgun, robbed the Lucky Star Chinese restaurant around 01:00hr.

Enquiries disclosed that the proprietor was tending to his business and was about to close when the men entered and ordered meals.

While filling the order, they stuck him up and robbed him of $300,000 and a quantity of phone cards before escaping.

Forty minutes later, two other men who were armed with handguns attacked the Dawn Cari Hotel on Public Road Kitty.

Enquiries disclosed that the men went to the hotel and approached the guard and demanded a room.

At that time it was raining heavily.

One of the men who were clad in long coats held up the guard and remained with him while his accomplice went to Candacy Da Silva, the Supervisor on duty and struck her in the head. The bandit then proceeded robbed her of $80,000.

As he was about to leave, the bandit ordered the supervisor and two other employees to lie face down.

They then escaped unchallenged.

And police are investigating a robbery under arms committed on an East Bank Demerara family, during which four bandits escaped with more than $1M in cash and jewelry, after raping a female occupant.

Enquiries disclosed that around 02:30hrs yesterday, three men armed with a handgun, knife and a cutlass entered the upper flat of the East Bank Demerara home that at the time was occupied by a woman, her son and daughter-in-law who were all asleep.

The men had gained entry into the house by removing six louver panes.

They proceeded to awaken the occupants and demanded cash and jewelry.

At gunpoint, the men relieved the woman of $8,000 and $500,000 in jewelry.

Her son was too relieved of $180,000 in jewelry and a cellular phone, while the woman's daughter-in law also was robbed of $120,000 in jewelry.

While the robbery was taking place, two of the men took one of the females into a room where they raped her.

Police were summoned, but by the time they arrived, the bandits had already made good their escape.

Police say investigations into the three robberies are being carried out with intensity.

Tuesday 06-28-2005