A GROUP of carjackers, using the heavy downpour of rain during the wee hours of Wednesday morning to shield their operations, made off with some vehicle parts from an Annandale, East Coast Demerara resident.

The victim was a man who kept two Toyota Allion and one BMW car under his house.
Recalling his encounter with the thieves, the businessman who wishes to remain anonymous, told this publication that he and his wife had retired to bed a little after 20:00hrs on Tuesday night after securing his premises.
He said his gates are always padlocked and the lights below his dwelling are usually on at nights, since one unit even uses a back-up system.
However, sometime after 02:00 hrs Wednesday morning, he awoke without any suspicions and went to a downstairs kitchen where he was surprised that the usual glare that flows in from the lights below his premises outside was not there.
Fearful that something was amiss, he said that he peered through the kitchen window, only to see the shape of three unknown persons working on a car.

His firearm
He, immediately, went to the upper flat for his firearm and put on another light that glows onto his driveway from the front of his residence.
But, before he could have engaged the trio, they promptly fled the scene and disappeared into the density of the rain showers.
The businessman said his subsequent investigations revealed that both bulbs under his house had been unscrewed while a cutter must have been used to remove the lock from his gate.
A detached left side front light was found next to one of the vehicles but the bandits still managed to escape with a front bumper, the right side front light and two mirrors from one car.
The owner surmised that the men would have stripped both cars and made his losses greater, if he had not awakened and scared them while they were committing the larceny.
He has since taken action to have the incident reported to the police.
For several years now, car owners have been reporting losses from their vehicles, which are stripped of core elements by an organised gang of thieves who seem to already have a multi-million dollar market for the stolen components.

(By Odella Patterson)