Teen charged with robbing Govt employee sent to change foreign currency
– accomplice was shot dead by Police
A man whose alleged accomplice was shot dead after they committed a robbery at King Street, Georgetown, has been charged and remanded to prison.
Appearing before Chief Magistrate (ag), Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus on Tuesday was 19-year-old Randy Smart, of Lot 240 South Road, Lacytown, Georgetown.
Police stated that on August 11, at King Street, Georgetown, while being in the company of another, the teenager robbed Chandradat Mangru of a Samsung cellular phone valued at $80,000.
The court heard that Mangru was sent by his employer, the Ministry of Legal Affairs and Attorney General’s Chambers to a Cambio on King Street to change foreign currency. Accompanying him in a State-owned vehicle was a Policeman attached to the Presidential Guard.
The dead suspected bandit lying next to the motorcycle that was involved in the alleged robbery
When he finished the transaction, Mangru exited the Cambio, and started to walk toward the vehicle when Smart’s accused accomplice approached him and snatched his phone.
He then jumped onto the motorcycle Smart was riding, and together, they rode north along King Street. The Policeman who was with Mangru chased after the fleeing men and caught up with them in the vicinity of North Road and King Street, where he fired several shots in their direction.
Abednego Trotman, a 25-year-old of Tiger Bay, Georgetown, was fatally shot. Smart was subsequently taken into custody after he lost his balance and fell onto the road.
In objecting to bail for Smart, the prosecutor cited the serious nature and prevalence of the offence. Police have since described the now dead man as a “known character”.
The accused robber will return to court on September 13 to collect statements.
