Gunmen take hostage as cops claims no vehicle available to respond to robbery

By: Royan Abrams

An eighteen year old girl was held hostage on Thursday night during during a robbery at her parents home at Black Bush Polder, Corentyne Berbice.

BIG Smith Crime Watch was told that shortly after that robbery, another robbery was attempted in another village and relatives are of the view that the same suspects were involved

At Black Bush Polder, 41 year old Lennox Ramcharran of Johanna South was confronted by three bandits as he returned home from his rice plantation at approximately 20:00hrs.

The farmer said he was struck to the head and about his body with weapons the bandits were carrying.

BIG Smith Crime Watch was also told that Lennox was tied up and dragged from the lower flat to the upper flat of his home by the bandits even as his family was also being attacked while cash and other valuables were demanded from them.

“When them carry me upstairs them start tumble for money and gold and me wife had the money so he give them but them keep asking for more” the man told BIG Smith Crime Watch.

During the robbery the police were summoned and sensing this, the bandits held the man’s eighteen year old daughter as they seek to make good their escape.

Still on the Corentyne Coast few villages away; the Roopnarines were managed to stave off an attack on their home by bandits at approximately 01:00hrs on Friday morning.

40 year old Harmon Roopnarine of Johanna North Black Bush and his family managed to keep the bandits out.

Roopnarine disclosed that at about 1:00 Friday morning he was in his bed when he heard a strange sound on his widow. Upon investigating he saw two armed men trying to break into his home.

“I collect a cutlass and them man ask me to put down the cutlass and my daughter and wife start hollering and asking them to stop and then they fire shots and leave” he told BIG Smith Crime Watch.

The man said his daughters began calling for help and even call the Mibicurri Black Bush Polder Police Station but were told that vehicles were not at the station.

By noon today, the police who had visited both crime scenes were still conducting their investigations even as no arrests have yet been made.