POLICE have recovered the car used by the suspects who executed a daring daylight robbery at Wallison Enterprise, Gordon Street, Kitty, Georgetown, on Thursday last.

According the Guyana Police Force (GPF), the car, a white new-model Toyota Allion bearing registration number PXX2237, was abandoned at the driver’s Cummings Lodge, East Coast of Demerara (ECD) house prior to him purportedly fleeing to the interior region of Guyana.

Police reported that residents of the area said that prior to leaving the coast, the driver was seen offloading and taking into his house a ‘canter truck load’ of household items, namely a refrigerator, television and audio system, which were purchased the day after the robbery.

Up to press time, Crime Chief, Wendell Blanhum, reported that it has been confirmed that the driver of the car is being pursued by police.

A serving member of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), and two ex-soldiers were since placed before the court for their involvement in the multimillion-dollar heist.

Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Sergeant Keyon King, 32, of Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo, and two of Wallison’s security officers, Delroy Jackson, called “Bug”, 36, of Golden Grove, East Coast Demerara; and Peon Lee, called “Nino Brown”, 35, of Mocha, East Bank Demerara, were on Tuesday slapped with four counts of robbery over the multimillion-dollar robbery.

As investigations into the matter continue, Blanhum noted on Tuesday that the police are in search of two other suspects believed to have been involved in the robbery.

He explained that the plan was hatched by Lee, who is the company’s Chief of Security, while Jackson, a security officer on duty at the time it was executed, reportedly confessed that it should have gone down on Wednesday, August 4, but because the owner’s family was there, it was done the following day instead.

At the time of the robbery, DaSilva, a 45-year-old goldsmith, and Carmicheal, a 20-year-old cashier, were at work at Wallison Enterprise when the bandits entered at 10:05 hours.

It is alleged that they’d come with a white car, which they parked on the northern side of the building, and entered the compound through the main gate. They were reportedly granted access into the building by a security guard, on the pretext that they were there to sell gold.

Once in the establishment’s waiting area, they reportedly impressed upon the cashier that the small package they were carrying contained the gold they’d come to sell, and after they would have gained her confidence, whipped out their firearms from their pants waist, and, at gunpoint, ushered her into an inner office where the goldsmith and another man were conducting some business.

Holding both men at gunpoint, the bandits reportedly ordered the goldsmith to open the two metal safes in the office, before handcuffing them, and, confiscating their cell-phones, valued some $360,000. They made good their escape with $38 million in cash and 60 ounces of raw gold they’d managed to lay their hands on, valued $20 million.

By the time the cashier raised the alarm, and the security guard on duty realised what had transpired, the bandits were long gone, and all that was left for them to do was summon the police.
Police, on Sunday, made a major breakthrough in the investigation with the recovery of a total of $18M found buried at King’s residence.