Bandits snatch over G$2M from Georgetown businessman

Three gunmen on Monday afternoon relieved a Drysdale Street, Charlestown, Georgetown businessman and his worker of over G$2 million in cash and other items.
The victims, Jonathan Alli, 30, of Drysdale Street, Charlestown and 35-year-old Dexter Cyrus, a salesman of La Grange, West Bank Demerara, were held at gunpoint by the three men about 14:20h and relieved of G$2 million in cash, one Samsung Galaxy S5 mobile phone and a Samsung Galaxy A3 cellphone.
Reports are Alli owns and operates a grocery and confectionery business in Section A, Block X, Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD) and about 12:10h, they left the business place in a bus, bearing registration number GVV 7960.
They proceeded to a bank at Diamond, where they reportedly changed two cheques – one amounted to G$1.5 million. After that transaction, the duo proceeded to Demerara Bank branch, which is a stone’s throw away and changed another cheque totalling G$500,000.
The businessman then drove to his home at Drysdale Street, where he parked his bus in front of the yard and as he exited, a silver-grey motor car bearing registration number HC 4682 pulled up on the other side of the road and stopped.
As the car came to a halt, three men exited the car and held Alli at gunpoint demanding that he hand over the money that he had collected from the bank.
The money, which was reportedly in a black plastic bag that Alli was carrying in his hands, was taken away by one of the men while another relieved Cyrus of his Samsung Galaxy A3 cellphone.
The gunmen then walked back to their car, and drove off. The matter was immediately reported to the Police and an investigation was launched.
Over the past week, at least four persons were relieved of large sums of money by armed men who trailed them after they left commercial banks primarily on the East Coast of Demerara. In two instances, the victims were injured – one was shot to the head while the other was shot to the left leg.
As the Police continue to probe these robberies, no arrests have been made.