New charges expected for armed robbery suspects

The four men who were remanded to prison in February for armed robbery, reappeared on Friday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts where Magistrate Leron Daly indicated that additional charges are pending.
The Magistrate noted that once investigations are completed, the new charges will be instituted. As such, the matter was adjourned to April 9, 2021.
Remanded were Orvin Grant, 27, a taxi driver of Melanie, Railway Embankment, East Coast Demerara (ECD); Ronlee Rampersaud, 31, a security guard of Sideline Dam, La Penitence, Georgetown; Russell Bowman, 38, of 8th Street Cummings Lodge, ECD, and Jermaine Hassan, 35, of Newton Kitty, Georgetown, both unemployed.
It is alleged that on February 6, 2021, at Subryanville, Georgetown, being in the company of others and armed with a gun, they robbed Selina Edwards of $200,000 in cash.
The prosecution had objected to bail, citing the fact that the virtual complainant was shot during the robbery and was still nursing her gunshot wound.
Additionally, the Police prosecutor also informed the court that Rampersaud was previously charged for a matter of similar nature.