Trio charged, remanded for Unity Supermarket robbery
Three men who had executed a daring daylight robbery on the Ayan Supermarket at Unity, East Coast Demerara last Saturday, September 22, have been remanded to prison after their arraignment before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan on Wednesday September 26 at the Cove and John Magistrate’s Court, ECD.
Initially, these men: 23-year-old Lushawn Crawford, known as ‘Kang’; 25-year-old Renardo Persaud and 20-year-old Anton Fraser, had been arraigned before Vigilance Magistrate Fabayo Azore on September 24, and had each been placed on $50,000 bail with orders to return to court on October 15.
On their second arraignment, this time before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan, charged with the offences of possession of firearm without licence and possession of ammunition without licence, they have been remanded, and will make their next court appearance on October 16, 2024.
The gun that the suspects had
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It has been reported that last Saturday, September 22, at about 16:10h, while the third suspect waited in the getaway car — silver-coloured Toyota Axio PAB 5491 – the other two suspects entered the Chinese-operated supermarket, and one of them brandished a firearm at the cashier while the other confiscated the cash that was in the register. The bandits then fled the scene in the vehicle.
An alarm was promptly raised, the police were contacted, and a unit reportedly spotted the getaway car in the Nabaclis area, ECD. A brief chase resulted in this vehicle crashing into another. Fortunately, no one in the other vehicle was injured.
When the suspects were detained, police discovered they had a 9mm Beretta pistol with matching magazine and ammunition, an amount of $9,750 in cash, a haversack, ski masks, and caps. They were later charged.
