| Police have detained the owner of a car which was abandoned by bandits at Industry, East Coast Demerara on Friday night, after the criminals had committed a daring robbery on an Atlantic Gardens businessman.The 24-year-old car owner, who hails from the Grove Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara, reported to police that he was the victim of a carjacking during which he was struck on his head and knocked unconscious only to awake six hours later.The abandoned getaway car. Of course, investigators are not buying his story and have detained him as one of the suspects in the robbery.On Friday night, around 19:15 hours, businessman Parmeshwar Singh was attacked by three bandits who relieved him of an undisclosed amount of cash.The men then made good their escape in a white AT 212 Toyota Carina, PKK 2056.But the police, who were alerted, immediately pursued the men along Crown Dam, Industry.The gunmen, sensing that they were being cornered, abandoned the vehicle and fled on foot.They also dropped a .32 calibre weapon which was recovered by police near the abandoned car.Around 02:00 hours yesterday, a man turned up at the new Diamond/Grove Police Station, all the way on the East Bank of Demerara to report that his car was hijacked.The man said that he was hired by three persons in the Diamond area to pick up some materials from an unfinished house there.According to the man, as he was assisting his passengers with the materials, one of them hit him on his head, rendering him unconscious.He claimed that he was tied up and left in the unfinished house, and he only regained consciousness six hours later. That was when he said that he went to report the matter.At the time, the police were unaware that the car that the man was speaking about was recovered by their counterparts on the East Coast of Demerara.This newspaper understands that there was no detective at the station when the initial report was made so the man subsequently went to the Grove Police Station around 08:00 hours yesterday and reported his story again.This time the police there had in their possession a copy of the Kaieteur News with the story of the abandoned car that was involved in the robbery the previous night.They became suspicious and after questioning the man, they found that his story was unconvincing and they promptly detained him.Investigators also suspect that the man is linked to several car break-ins in the Diamond/Grove area.He was later handed over to investigators on the East Coast of Demerara who are probing Friday night’s robbery. |
