An East Canje, Berbice couple was robbed at gunpoint by two armed men shortly after arriving home on Friday night.
Businessowners, Danny Milton Sankar, 58, and his wife arrived at their Lot 588 Fort Ordinance Housing Scheme, East Canje, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) home in their motor car sometime around 19:35h and as they were about to enter the yard, they were attacked.
Sankar’s wife had stepped out of the vehicle, leaving her belongings in the car, and went to open the gate when he was confronted by two suspects, who held him at gunpoint.
The armed men relieved the couple of one Samsung Galaxy A51 cell phone, value unknown; one Samsung Galaxy S7 cell phone valued $70,000; one Samsung Note 8 cell phone valued $90,000; one Samsung J7 cell phone valued $59,000; one Samsung J5 cell phone valued $55,000; a quantity of Digicel and GT&T phone cards; an undisclosed amount of cash, one gold chain valued $120,000; two gold rings valued $110,000 and one pair of reading glasses valued $160,000 along with other items including documents.
Businessman Danny Milton Sankar
In addition, the bandits also took the couple’s motor car, a Burgundy Spacio, PNN 7220, valued $3,300,000, which they used to escape. However, the vehicle was later found abandoned in another street in Fort Ordinance.
The incident was reported to the Police and checks made for the suspects in the area were futile.
Investigators also reviewed CCTV footage from the victim’s home but the robbery was not caught on the camera.
However, Sankar complained to reporters about the way the Police are handling the investigation.
The businessman and his wife were robbed outside their Canje home
“Even if you feed the Police with information they are not still [doing anything] with the information…,” he stated.
The businessman further explained that he was robbed several times before.
“This is the third time [I was robbed]. I was beaten off a motorcycle in 2007, October 11; I was robbed here on March 15, 2015, and I was robbed [again on Friday]. The second robbery, I do my own investigations without the Police. They made some arrests and it was the right person and one of the individuals that robbed me and my wife also, the Magistrate found him not guilty and found the man who give him the firearm guilty,” Sankar claimed.
Since then, the businessman said he has applied for a firearm licence but was never granted approval.
“[I went] to the Commissioner of Police with meh application and didn’t get it for years. At one time, I bin and they take fingerprints and they do everything to give you a firearm licence, where they visit the [inside] of my home, the [outside], the outside of my business place but they never give me a firearm licence,” Sankar stated.
Meanwhile, Police said further investigations into Friday’s robbery are in progress.
