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Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Doctor struggles with bandits

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2053 days ago
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San Fernando-based doctor Ronald Budhooram struggles with two armed bandits who attempted to rob his Cocoyea, San Fernando office.

San Fernando-based doctor Ronald Budhooram struggles with two armed bandits who attempted to rob his Cocoyea, San Fernando office.

A 62-year-old med­ical doc­tor fought off two as­sailants and es­caped when they tried to hold him up at his of­fice in Co­coyea Vil­lage, San Fer­nan­do on Fri­day. A video of the in­ci­dent cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia shows a man sit­ting in the wait­ing area of the of­fice speak­ing with Dr Ronald Bud­hooram.

Po­lice said the man was pre­tend­ing to be a pa­tient. When the doc­tor opened the door to let him out of the of­fice, the man grabbed the doc­tor who tried to run out the door. How­ev­er, an­oth­er man stand­ing on the out­side of the door grabbed him. The doc­tor strug­gled with the as­sailant and man­aged to es­cape his clutch­es. The as­sailant was left hold­ing his (doc­tor’s) shirt as the doc­tor ran off bare­back. The as­sailants stole a quan­ti­ty of cash from in­side the of­fice.

Bud­hooram was two years ago charged with un­law­ful­ly killing a ba­by af­ter the body of a new­born ba­by was found in a freez­er at his of­fice. The doc­tor is out on bail and that mat­ter is still pend­ing at the San Fer­nan­do Mag­is­trates Court. Mean­while, Mon Re­pos po­lice are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the rob­bery at the doc­tor’s of­fice.

Po­lice are ask­ing that any­one who recog­nis­es the as­sailants in the video or have any in­for­ma­tion about the rob­bery to please con­tact the near­est po­lice sta­tion, 800-TIPS or What­sApp 482-GARY.


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