Men robbed $5.8M in minibus shortly after receiving salaries

Two employees of Elite Protection Service located at Leonora, West Coast Demerara were robbed almost $6 million on Friday hours after they were paid

Police said the men, a 45-year-old male of Leguan, Essequibo River and a 71-year-old male of Wakenaam, Essequibo River were robbed exactly $5.8 by two identifiable male suspects, one of whom was armed with a handgun, at Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo at about 11:30 hours.

The two employees were respectively paid $3 million dollars cash after which they left the office at Leonora and joined a minibus driven by a 42-year-old man of Greenwich Park, E Bank Essequibo.

After the man joined the bus, one of the suspects also joined the bus at Leonora and went into the third seat, while the second suspect joined the bus at Zeelugt and went into the front seat of the bus.

One of the suspects requested the driver to go into Clay Brick Road to collect his grandmother and he offered to pay two thousand dollars extra. As the driver was proceeding in the direction given by the suspect, in the vicinity of the northern end aback of Clay Brick Road, the suspect who was in the third seat caused the driver to stop and pulled out a handgun, and proceeded to rob the two victims of the monies.

The suspect who was in the front seat pulled the keys out of the bus’ ignition after which he ran to a motorcycle that was parked a short distance away from the bus. He was joined by the other suspect, and they both subsequently escaped on the said motorcycle.

The victims were also robbed of a Blu cellular phone valued at $5,000, a Samsung J7 cellular phone valued at $30,000, a Grand Prime phone valued at $20,000, and one S10 Samsung Galaxy phone valued at $60,000.

Investigations are ongoing.