FIVE men stole $6.5M worth of components from a parked excavator at a Berbice contractor’s residence early Monday morning.
Police reported that the heist took place about 01:30 h, when watchman Naresh Mahadeo, working at the Edinburgh, West Coast Berbice home of Suresh Jagmohan, was confronted by five men, two of whom were armed with a handgun and a knife.
Mahadeo was bound and locked in a toilet and the quintet took away two batteries, a hydraulic pump, a starter and a computer box, from the machine and escaped.
Police investigations into the robbery are in progress.