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FOUR men broke into Viscom Electronics Store, at Mon Repos Public Road, East Coast Demerara, early yesterday morning and carted off merchandise worth $3.2M.
Their booty comprised expensive brand name items, said businessman Shridath Singh, who suffered the loss. He told the Guyana Chronicle that he was at home when he received a telephone call from the owner of the building, informing him of the burglary.
The distressed young man said, when he arrived at the location he could not enter because the landlord had already gone to Beterverwagting Police Station to make a report.
Singh said a policeman came and took some information but left without even dusting for fingerprints “or doing any real investigation.”
He said the break-in took place about 03:00 hrs and the quartet used a blow torch to cut open the locks that secured the front door of the lower flat premises.
Singh said the landlord explained that someone who was passing saw the burglars inside and telephoned him and when he went to enquire, the thieves were escaping and he raised an alarm, causing them to drop two bags containing DVD players, iPods, watches and digital cameras, among other things.
However, they escaped in a waiting silver grey Toyota 212 vehicle, bearing the number PKK 2221, with the rest of what they stole.
Singh said the robbers had ample time to select the most costly things, including portable DVD players, colognes, perfumes, cell phones, Blackberry playbooks, laptops and flash drives.
He recalled that there was an attempted burglary at his other store, at Mahaica, also on East Coast Demerara, sometime ago. (Michel Outridge)
Their booty comprised expensive brand name items, said businessman Shridath Singh, who suffered the loss. He told the Guyana Chronicle that he was at home when he received a telephone call from the owner of the building, informing him of the burglary.
The distressed young man said, when he arrived at the location he could not enter because the landlord had already gone to Beterverwagting Police Station to make a report.
Singh said a policeman came and took some information but left without even dusting for fingerprints “or doing any real investigation.”
He said the break-in took place about 03:00 hrs and the quartet used a blow torch to cut open the locks that secured the front door of the lower flat premises.
Singh said the landlord explained that someone who was passing saw the burglars inside and telephoned him and when he went to enquire, the thieves were escaping and he raised an alarm, causing them to drop two bags containing DVD players, iPods, watches and digital cameras, among other things.
However, they escaped in a waiting silver grey Toyota 212 vehicle, bearing the number PKK 2221, with the rest of what they stole.
Singh said the robbers had ample time to select the most costly things, including portable DVD players, colognes, perfumes, cell phones, Blackberry playbooks, laptops and flash drives.
He recalled that there was an attempted burglary at his other store, at Mahaica, also on East Coast Demerara, sometime ago. (Michel Outridge)
