Essequibo duo remanded on joint armed robbery charge

Twenty-three-year-old Jarod Granville and 33-year-old Rabindra Lall, who is also called ‘Pope’, have been remanded to prison following their arraignment before Suddie Magistrate Tamieka Clarke on a joint charge of armed robbery.
The police contend that these two residents of Henrietta village on the Essequibo Coast in Region Two robbed Xiaoming Yang, a 38-year-old Chinese national, last Monday at her place of business at Lima village on the Essequibo Coast.

Details of the robbery were not released to the media, but the two men have pleaded not guilty to the charge, and have been remanded to prison until October 16, 2024. The matter has been transferred to the Magistrate’s Court at Anna Regina in Region Two.