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In the early hours of yesterday morning, the building which houses Digicel in Grove, East Bank Demerara and a restaurant called Donna’s Delicacies were robbed by criminal elements that seemingly spared no effort as they broke windows, doors and walls to gain access to the building.According to reports,Doug Flutie Chargers Jersey, the bandits were on the premises for some three hours ransacking the building,Byron Maxwell Dolphins Jersey, even though reports had been made to the police early into the robbery.The compound was apparently accessed through a hole in the fence, which was made after the bandits removed a piece of zinc from the fence.The bandits apparently first tried to gain access to the building through the extractor fan of Donna’s Delicacies. They bent the blades of the fan severely, and when they still could not gain access, they tried to break in the door of the establishment.This proved futile, so the bandits resorted to removing the bars on one of the windows of the building. According to the proprietor of the establishment,Travis Benjamin Chargers Jersey, the bandits had a lot of time because they tried to enter the building so many times. Added to this, it appears as if there were numerous bandits,Kenjon Barner Eagles Jersey, considering the quantity of things which they extracted.After entering the building, they proceeded to ransack Donna’s Delicacies. In the process of the looting, they attacked the cash register, damaging it. They also made off with a quantity of confectioneries and drinks, some of which they consumed whilst they were on the premises.The vandals made off with a DVD player,Justin Hunter Dolphins Jersey, a set of speakers and a quantity of colognes, among other things.According to the worker who first arrived at work at approximately 5:45 hours, she found the business vandalized. The smell of cooking gas permeated the building because the bandits had broken the gas line. She said that it was pure luck that there was no fire, because the gas posed a huge fire risk.According to staffers of the restaurant, they estimated their losses, excluding the damages, to be in the vicinity of $100,000. However, they noted that these estimates were preliminary, and that they had not done a thorough examination.After the bandits had ransacked the restaurant,Chris Watt Chargers Jersey, they proceeded to smash a hole in the wall, and gained access to the phone shop, from which they made off with a quantity of cellular phones. The workers of the shop were hesitant to provide Kaieteur News with information, and noted that they were not at liberty to speak with the media.The same cellular phone shop had suffered a break-in some time in August last year. A fixed cost of the damages, said the Digicel staffers,Marcus Smith Eagles Jersey, could not yet be estimated.While police ranks showed up on the scene at approximately 6:00 hours, reports have reached this newspaper that reports were made to the Providence Police Station at around 2:00 hours, but the police rank who received the call apparently said that she was the only rank at the station at the time, and due to this,Darren Sproles Eagles Jersey, there was little she could do.“Watch how many vehicle de police got,Mike Pouncey Dolphins Jersey,” one staff member stated. “One a dem couldn’t a come down and see?”A police source, in an invited comment, said that the onus was on the police rank who was on duty at the police station to call another patrol to investigate the matter, if the rank was in fact the only officer at the station when the report came in. |
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