-escape
with owner's gun
Two bandits escaped with $174,000, a
licensed revolver and a cellular phone at around
13:50hrs yesterday after holding an Eccles
lumber dealer at gunpoint in his office.
Deolall Pooran, the proprietor of Davo's
lumber yard at Eccles Industrial
Site, was left bound and gagged on his office
floor while the men fled in a grey car before
his employees knew that he had been attacked.
The bandits had gained entry to the office by
pretending that they wanted to make a large
purchase of lumber.
According to Pooran, one of the bandits had
visited the lumber yard earlier with a list
purporting that he wanted to buy lumber.
Pooran said he told the man to return at
around 13:50 hrs and the ‘customer' returned
around that time with another man.
He recalled that the men were driving a grey
AT 192 with a piece of cardboard in place of the
front number plate.
Pooran took the men into his office where
they showed him a list for $240,000 in lumber.
According to the lumber dealer, the men said
they would pay $40,000 in advance.
One of the men then placed his hand in his
pockets, but instead of cash, withdrew a .9mm
pistol, pointed it at Pooran and ordered the
lumber dealer to remain quiet.
“The other man pull out a .32
revolver...point it at me and say:
‘Hand over everything before I blow out yuh
brains,'” Pooran said.
While one of the men guarded the businessman,
the other taped Pooran's mouth and hands.
They then relieved him of $174,000, $4,000 in
cheques, his licensed .32 revolver and a
cellular phone. They also cut the telephone line
to his office. The men then ordered Pooran to
lie face down on the floor, taped his legs and
then walked calmly past Pooran's employees, who
had no idea that their boss had just been
robbed.
The men then drove away.
Police ranks in four vehicles arrived on the
scene shortly after the robbery but by then the
men had already fled the area.
A security guard who controls the gate
leading into Eccles Industrial Site recalled
seeing the vehicle enter and leave.
No arrests have been made.
Friday
11-18-20O5
