Hijackers posing as passengers escape with taxi driver’s car

Thirty-six-year-old Royston Green, a taxi driver of Diamond, East Bank Demerara, was robbed at gunpoint on Tuesday at about 20:00h, and
had his car hijacked.
It has been reported that Green was hired by a man at Diamond who wanted to be taken to Soesdyke, EBD to pick up another passenger.
Reports are that when Green arrived at Latchman Sand Road, Soesdyke, EBD, the other person posing as a passenger approached him and whipped out a handgun.
Police say both men held the driver at gunpoint and relived him of his valuables.
Green was robbed of an undisclosed amount of cash, a cellular phone, and his silver grey 2012 model Premio motor car, PWW 1790. After the robbery, the matter was reported to the Police, and an investigation was launched.
Earlier this month, a taxi driver was held at both knife and gunpoint by two persons who pretended to be passengers, and was robbed of his motor car at East Street, Georgetown.
The 65-year-old victim of that robbery, a resident of Fifth Street Alberttown, Georgetown, reportedly told Police that he had picked up three men on the day in question along East Street, Georgetown, in the vicinity of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) at around 13:30h, and they had asked to be taken to Mercy Wings at Sophia, Greater Georgetown.
Guyana Times understands that while in the vicinity of Mercy Wings, one of the men who were in the back passengers’ seat whipped out a knife, placed it to the victim’s neck, and demanded that he stop the vehicle.
As the vehicle came to a halt, the bandits demanded that he hand over the keys to the car.
The taxi driver reportedly tried to put up a resistance, but the suspect in the front passenger’s seat dealt him one blow to his face with a black handgun.
As a result, the taxi driver exited his vehicle and raised an alarm, but the suspects escaped with the victim’s car.
This victim was allegedly robbed of one silver-grey Premio motor car, HD 1777, valued at $3.3 million, along with one cell phone. (G9)