Three males arrested, woman put on bail
–Police seeking DPP’s advice on way forward

POLICE yesterday confirmed that three men are in custody as investigations continue into Monday’s daring daylight robbery, at gunpoint, at a popular city pharmacy.

Reports are that while the three are being held for questioning, they may very well not have had anything to do with the robbery. One of the three men is reportedly the brother of one of the suspects being sought by the police for the crime.
Meanwhile, the woman who was being held since Monday on suspicion of being an accomplice in the felony was released yesterday. However, she is not yet home free, since the police are seeking the advice of the Director of Public Prosecution on the way forward; and once the directive is that she should be charged, she will be rearrested.
According to information received, the police were forced to seek the advice of the DPP’s Chambers given the evidence available to them, and certain utterances made by the woman.
The Guyana Chronicle has learnt that since she was arrested on Monday, she has not been saying much to the police, and was extremely tight-lipped about her association with the two men alleged to have committed the robbery and later parked the getaway motorcycle in her business premises on D’Urban Street.
While she is claiming to have had no association with the men on the motorcycle, she admitted to being familiar with the driver of the motorcar that whisked the felons away to safety from her D’Urban Street premises where they had parked the motorcycle, having emptied the victim’s handbag of the money it contained and dumping it in the nearest rubbish bin, which so happened to be hers.
On Monday, Andy Mohamed, the victim’s companion, told the Chronicle that his curiosity was first aroused when the men pulled up at the pharmacy and one entered the store. He said he exited his vehicle and made for the store since he had a sneaky suspicion that the two were up to no good. But by the time he gained entry into the store, the bandit had already robbed the woman and was leaving.

(By Leroy Smith)