THE late ‘Popcorn’ gang members, Tameshwar ‘Rambo’ Khemraj, 26, of Lot 178 Nigg Settlement; Deon Fraser, called ‘Bucko’, 23 , of Adelphi, and fugitive from justice Abdulssalam Azumullah, alias ‘Sato’, 29 , of Lot 183 Hampshire, were each sentenced to six years at the Reliance Court on Wednesday, after they were found guilty on two counts of robbery under arms.

However, they will just serve three years, as presiding Magistrate Sherdel Marcus Isaacs stipulated that the period of confinement must run concurrently.
A confinement warrant has since been issued for Deon Fraser, who was sentenced in absentia. The fourth defendant, Deodat Seecharran, known as ‘Popcorn’, of Edinburgh Village, has since been shot and killed by police.
The repeat offenders were jointly charged for robbing Inderjeet Persaud and his wife Melissa Fernandes, on June 2, 2012, at Cumberland Public Road, East Canje.
The quartet, armed with a gun and knife, robbed Persaud called Chris, of two gold chains valued at $450,000, four gold rings valued at $200,000, a gold bangle valued at $200,000 a stainless steel and gold band worth $30,000, and $11,000 in cash.
Fernandes too was robbed of $185,000 in cash, TT$1,080 in cash, four cell phones worth $220,000, and a quantity of gold jewellery valued $550,000.
It is alleged that on Saturday, June 2, 2012, the men, masked and armed with gun, knives and a cutlass, invaded the premises of Persaud and his spouse Fernandes, robbing them, in the process.
The incident occurred in the full view of others.