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Saturday, July 26, 2025

Brothers mount high-speed chase, help cops catch bandits

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Rhondor Dowlat-Rostant
1459 days ago
20210728

Two broth­ers em­barked on a dar­ing high-speed chase yes­ter­day to catch the men, who robbed them of $20,000 in cash af­ter they left a bank in Val­park.

The hot pur­suit of the ban­dits by the broth­ers was caught on cam­era and up­loaded to so­cial me­dia, where it went vi­ral in min­utes.

The call made by the old­er broth­er to E-999 was al­so record­ed.

The dar­ing chase by the broth­ers helped the po­lice ar­rest one of the sus­pects, af­ter the younger broth­er got out of his car and at­tempt­ed to con­front the three men who were forced to a stop af­ter their get­away ve­hi­cle got a flat tyre.

Guardian Me­dia spoke with the younger of the two broth­ers yes­ter­day, some hours af­ter the or­deal.

With­hold­ing his name and that of his sib­ling for safe­ty rea­sons,

the 26-year-old ex­plained that he and his 30-year-old broth­er were at a home goods store in San Juan, when their ve­hi­cle was bro­ken in­to and 20,000 dol­lars stolen. Be­fore they went to the store, the sib­lings had just left a bank in Val­park, where the man sus­pect­ed they were fol­lowed by the ban­dits.

He said he and his old­er broth­er spot­ted the thieves and the red Sly­phy ve­hi­cle they were in and de­cid­ed to pur­sue them.

The younger of the sib­lings said he and his broth­er de­cid­ed to act on the spur of the mo­ment, say­ing they were tired of be­ing vic­tims of crime.

"This is the sec­ond time it hap­pened to me when peo­ple fol­lowed me from the bank. The first time was in 2018 when they were chang­ing over the notes to the new $100 bill. I had $30,000 on me and lost it and this time around it was my broth­er's mon­ey to pur­chase goods. Now that I have calmed down and think­ing, it oc­curred to me that we may have done some­thing very risky and en­dan­ger­ing to our lives but we both were think­ing dif­fer­ent­ly at the time," the younger broth­er said.

But he was full of praise for the po­lice of­fi­cers in­clud­ing the Woman Po­lice of­fi­cer from Com­mand Cen­tre who was on the phone with them and re­lay­ing the in­for­ma­tion to Barataria Po­lice Sta­tion.

"The po­lice in Brarataria re­spond­ed in two min­utes and were able to in­ter­cept the dri­ver, how­ev­er, the oth­er two men es­caped by run­ning through an emp­ty lot of land on­to an­oth­er road."

An in­ves­ti­gat­ing of­fi­cer con­firmed that one of the sus­pects was held and is in po­lice cus­tody as­sist­ing them in their in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

The sus­pect told the po­lice that he is from Ma­yaro.

Po­lice of­fi­cers al­so de­tect­ed that a false reg­is­tra­tion num­ber plate was placed over the get­away car's orig­i­nal num­ber plates.

The car is im­pound­ed at the Barataria Po­lice Sta­tion.

Fol­low­ing yes­ter­day's trau­ma, the younger broth­er plead­ed with cit­i­zens to be ex­tra care­ful and vig­i­lant when go­ing to banks or con­duct­ing their dai­ly busi­ness.

"The po­lice ought to be cred­it­ed for the re­sponse they gave in our case but it seems as though thieves are lurk­ing around banks and fol­low­ing their tar­gets and rob­bing them. Peo­ple must try to use on­line bank­ing as much as pos­si­ble and if with­draw­ing monies try not to walk with any bags that might alert the thieves. Move dis­creet­ly and in case of any­thing call the po­lice."

Of­fi­cers are search­ing for the oth­er sus­pects.


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