In
daring daylight robbery on Regent
Street…
Gizmos
employees tied-up with shoe laces and duct
tape
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bandits escape with $146,000 cash, undisclosed number of cell phones
By Michel Outridge
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TWO employees of the popular
Gizmos and Gadgets Auto Zone/Money Gram store in
the City were yesterday tied up with shoe
laces and duct
tape by a gang of five bandits – two women and
three men – who entered the business place on the pretext of purchasing
cell phones.
Reports
are that the two employees, cashier Amelia Khan and sales clerk
Kiran Persaud, were held up and robbed by the gang, two of whose
members were armed with a handgun
and a screw driver.
Employee
Kiran Persaud shortly after the robbery yesterday.
The
robbers tied up their victims with shoe laces and duct tape and
locked them in a washroom before escaping the scene with an
undisclosed number of cell phones and $136,000 in cash belonging to
the company along with three cell phones, a pair of sunglasses and
$10,000 in cash belonging to the two victims.
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Recounting
the traumatic ordeal to reporters yesterday, the cashier said that
shortly after 14:00 hrs, she and another employee were alone in the
store – located at 105 Regent Road, Bourda - when a woman came in.
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The
woman ‘customer’ said she wanted to transact a ‘money
transfer’ via Money Gram, but her documents were not in order, Ms.
Khan recounted.
‘RECOUNTING THE
ORDEAL’: Amelia
Khan, the traumatised female
employee minutes after the robbery.
According
to the visibly shaken cashier, the woman did not even have an
identification card to make the transaction and was told to return
with the necessary documentation before the transfer can be
effected.
The
cashier said the woman returned shortly after, but this time she was
accompanied by another woman and three men.
Khan
explained that she was tending to the woman, who began pricing all
the items in the store, while her accomplices went to the male
employee, Kiran Persaud, when she was suddenly grabbed by her throat
and told to shut her mouth.
At
this time, Khan said the bandits began beating Persaud, while they
bound and gagged her. The two employees were then shoved inside a
washroom. While the two employees were locked away, the bandits took
whatever they could from the store and fled in a gold-coloured
Toyota Carina AT-170 motorcar, with number plate, HB 3971.
Khan
said that somehow her colleague managed to free himself and they
opened the washroom door and ran out of the store and summoned help.
She was assisted by employees from the store next door and the
police were summoned but by then the bandits had already fled in the
waiting motor car.
Wednesday,
November 04, 2009
