AT around 12:30 hrs, yesterday, 25-year old Jenella Burke, a Dispatcher at the Green Ice Taxi Service, located at Cross Street and Mandela Avenue, Georgetown, was on duty, when a man armed with a handgun entered the business and held her at gunpoint. According to a press release issued from the Guyana Police Force, the armed assailant took away her personal jewellery, two cell phones and $51,000.00 in cash and escaped on foot.
The victim subsequently alerted taxi-drivers attached to the service, relating to them what had transpired and some drivers managed to confront the suspect along Mandela Avenue, who discharged rounds in the direction of the drivers, damaging a window of HB 8303.
The man was later overpowered and an unlicensed .38 revolver with three live rounds and two spent shells were taken away and handed over to the police, the release added.
The suspect was taken into police custody after being treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
A cell phone and a quantity of cash were recovered by the police.
Further investigations led to the arrest of two other men who are in police custody assisting with the investigations.