… visited Auto Sales earlier posing as customers and promising to return later

TWO bandits invaded Selana Auto Sales at 157 Lusignan Public Road, East Coast of Demerara, mid-afternoon yesterday and drove off with two vehicles.

Information reaching the Guyana Chronicle indicated that the men visited the business place yesterday morning under the pretext that they were customers and wanted to see a few cars; they then informed the young man who was dealing with customers that they would return later in the day to check a few more vehicles, but this time with a female companion.
They did return. However they failed to show with the woman as promised.
The salesman paused from eating his lunch to deal with the “customers”, and approached them with a box containing keys to all the vehicles.
They pointed the sales clerk to a vehicle that were interested in examining and suddenly decided that they also wanted to see the repossessed vehicles parked at the back of the yard.
As he was at the back of the yard, showing the men a repossessed minibus, they suddenly fell upon him, tied him up and locked him in the minibus.
The salesman related that soon after he heard vehicles being driven off.
Fridays are market days at Lusignan, and the sight of unregistered vehicles leaving the auto sales compound caused some concern among shoppers.
The owners of the business were immediately contacted and a search was launched for the vehicles. The first car to be located was a Toyota Allion, which conked out soon after leaving the business place, as the battery just died. It was found parked on the railway embankment.
The search for the other vehicle, a Toyota Preimo, was still on up to late last evening. The search was conducted in several East Coast of Demerara villages, including Buxton.

(By Leroy Smith)