SHANE SU­PERVILLE

Se­nior Re­porter

A work­er's week­ly salary was among sev­er­al items stolen by ban­dits who stormed a gro­cery in En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas, on Fri­day night.

Po­lice said three work­ers were at the busi­ness place on To­ba­go Road, at around 7:55 pm, when three gun­men walked in­to the store and an­nounced a rob­bery.

The ban­dits or­dered the trio to lie down on the ground while they stole some $8,865 from the cash reg­is­ter, as well as a wal­let con­tain­ing the work­er's salary of $1,400 and mo­bile phones, be­fore walk­ing out of the store and es­cap­ing.

Of­fi­cers of the Ch­agua­nas CID were called in and are con­tin­u­ing en­quiries.

In an un­re­lat­ed in­ci­dent a few hours ear­li­er on Fri­day af­ter­noon, po­lice ar­rest­ed a man af­ter he drove off with a taxi dri­ver's car in Cunu­pia.

Po­lice said the dri­ver was ply­ing the car for hire on Mon­roe Road, near a bar at around 1:47 pm.

The man pre­tend­ed to be a pas­sen­ger and sat in the car as the dri­ver wait­ed for oth­er pas­sen­gers.

Short­ly af­ter­wards, the dri­ver, who had left the keys in the ig­ni­tion, no­ticed the car was dri­ving off as an­oth­er pas­sen­ger in­formed him that the stranger was steal­ing the car.

Of­fi­cers of the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Task Force were called in and in­ter­cept­ed the car on the south­bound lane of the Sir Solomon-Ho­choy High­way.

The ban­dit, who is from War­renville, was ar­rest­ed and tak­en to the Cunu­pia Po­lice Sta­tion for ques­tion­ing.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue.