QUICK action Wednesday night by the police, Community Policing Group (CPG) members and residents led to the capture of one of three bandits whom had robbed the Pencil and Sur Pools Bar at Lot 106 Gandhi Street, Enterprise, East Coast Demerara.
The bandits after carting off several bottles of liquor, cell phones and cash tried to evade a police roadblock at Cove and John, also on the East Coast Demerara.

Police reported that at about 20:40 hrs on Wednesday, businessman Surindra Ramjass, 30, was in his liquor restaurant with three customers when three men entered, two of whom were armed with a handgun and a chopper.
The men held up Ramjass and the three others and took away cash, cell phones and alcohol then escaped.
Later, police ranks at a road block at Cove and John, ECD, observed that a motor car which was approaching suddenly turned back. The police pursued the vehicle and subsequently caught up with it. Two men escaped from the vehicle, while the third man was arrested.
The man has been identified as one of the perpetrators of the armed robbery at the liquor restaurant. A cell phone which has been identified as belonging to one of the victims and a quantity of alcohol has also been recovered.
At the business place yesterday, the owner, Dhanmatti Ramjass, whose son was the victim and was out when the Chronicle visited, told this publication that at the time of the incident, she was inside the house after manning the adjoining grocery shop.
The woman said that she became suspicious after she heard unusual sounds coming from the liquor restaurant her son operates and peeped through the window and saw some strange men in the place.
According to the woman, her son made a daring escape via the side gate into the living quarters of the house, telling her, “Mommy bandits in the place.” They then secured the door and telephoned neighbours to alert the police and CPG members.
She added that the men accosted the three customers, one of whom was on his way home from work and had briefly stopped to purchase a cell phone card and another was there talking about seeking a place to rent when the robbers pounced on them.
Ramjass, who is widowed, said that her son told her he was closing the shop when they observed a Toyota 212 dark coloured motorcar circling the business place but by the time they realised what was happening it was too late.
The men were upon them as they stood chatting just outside the pools bar and they were taken inside the place and relieved of all valuables.
She said that her son managed to break free and entered the house and alerted her. They promptly made several calls for help while the robbers were banging down the door telling them to “open up or we will shoot.”
The woman and her son, however, ignored the threat after neighbours were alerted.
Ramjass said that the police responded promptly to the call, backed up by CPG members as well as neighbours, and she is grateful for their cooperation and pleased that no one was injured in the incident but it has left them quite shaken up.

(By Michel Outridge)