ACCORDING to the police, around 22:30 hrs on Friday, February 21, five men armed with a handgun, ice picks and knives attacked and robbed 25-year-old pump attendant Hassan Khan of an undisclosed sum of cash, and three men who were with him watching television were robbed of a total of $13,600 and two cell phones. The robbers escaped in a motor vehicle.

Subsequent police investigations led to the arrest of a man and detention of the vehicle at Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara, and to the arrest of three other men in a minibus at the Demerara Harbour Bridge, and another man at Hunter Street, Albouystown, Georgetown.

The two stolen cell phones were recovered, and the detainees are still in police custody assisting with the investigation.

(Michel Outridge)