– for armed robbery at E-Networks CI branch
A 27-year-old was on Monday remanded to prison on allegations that he participated in an armed robbery on the E-Networks store at Cornelia Ida (CI), West Coast Demerara. The suspect, Orande Gordon, of Nutmeg Street, Festival City, Georgetown, was arraigned before Magistrate Rushell Liverpool at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court.
When the armed robbery allegation was put before him on Monday, he entered a not guilty plea but the Police Prosecutor objected to bail on the grounds of the seriousness of the offence. As Magistrate Liverpool obliged, bail was refused and Gordon was escorted by Police ranks to a holding area. He will remain in prison until his next hearing on August 23.
It was in the morning hours of Thursday last that two males with handguns stormed the E-Networks store at CI, where they robbed two cashiers and seven customers of their valuables before fleeing in a waiting motorcar. The victims were ordered to lie on the floor and were then bound with plastic hand ties.
Hours before, two bandits at around 15:00h on Wednesday, had entered the Mon Repos branch of the E-Networks Store – housed in the lower flat of the Mon Repos Mall, East Coast Demerara – where they forced three customers and two staff to the ground, stole cash, mobile phones, and other valuables including i-pads and the store’s revenue for the day. These bandits also fled in a waiting motorcar; similar to the West Coast Demerara attack. However, it is yet to be confirmed if the CI remanded robbery suspect, Orande Gordon, was involved in the Mon Repos robbery on the E-networks store. Police investigations to nab other possible accomplices are continuing.
