THE police on Friday arrested a person of interest whom they believe is the prime suspect in the multi-million dollar robbery committed on a gold establishment in Alexander Village two Thursdays ago.

On Saturday ,this newspaper had confirmed that the police arrested the suspect after receiving information through intelligence gathering that the man did play a part in the beating and robbing of the occupants who were at the establishment at the time the suspect and three others pounced.
During the ordeal, six persons including a businessman and his wife who operate the establishment were held up and robbed of gold, diamonds, cash and a firearm among other things.
In addition to the business couple Theresa and Imtikhab Ali, the other persons who were robbed during the unfortunate incident were are Latiff Persaud,a 22- year- old Goldsmith of 18 First Street, Alexander Village. He was robbed of a mobile phone and a silver band. Pooran Ramoutar on the other hand, a 32-year-old manager of another gold establishment and of 19 First Street , Alexander Village, was robbed of eight pennyweights of 14- karat gold valued $40,000 and three pennyweights of 12- karat gold, worth $16,000.
Since the incident, the police have been able to question several persons and two identification parades were held, but based on the recollection of the victims, none of the persons placed on the identification parade fit the description of the robbers, two of whom were masked and the other unmasked.
Theresa Ali, 38 years, a housewife and her husband Imtikhab Ali, 39, a goldsmith were pounced on by the bandits just about 11.30 am on Thursday morning while customers were in their establishment, Kumar Jewellery. The woman was upstairs in her living quarters while her husband was downstairs with workers and customers.

(By Leroy Smith)