THE police are investigating an on-going case where a porter and a driver for a confectionery company at Harlem, West Coast Demerara, tried to rob their employer of $1.2M by staging a robbery last Thursday.According to a police report, at about 18:40hrs on the day in question, ranks responded to a report of an alleged armed robbery that was committed on the driver and porter of the said company .
The two suspects had told officers that they were travelling in their canter truck, when they were forced off the road by a motor car.
The men alleged that two armed men exited the car held them up and at gunpoint took away $1.2M, a laptop computer and their two cellphones but before the bandits went away, they locked the driver and his porter inside the rear of the canter truck. The two men were later rescued by passersby who heard them knocking on the walls of the vehicle.
However, upon questioning by the police, the two “victims” admitted that they had staged the robbery with the involvement of three other men who were given the money and cellphones after pretending to be carrying out the robbery.
One of the alleged “bandits” was subsequently arrested, and a part of the stolen cash and the two cell- phones were recovered. The laptop computer was also recovered in the vicinity of the staged robbery,” the police said.
Meanwhile, three men are in police custody assisting with the investigation.