Georgetown: Three Stabroek Market Vendors have been charged for the 22 million dollar L. Seepersaud Jewellery Store heist which occurred earlier this month.
Those charged are 60-year-old Clifford Rodney of one Mile Linden, 54-year-old Albert Defreitas of Leopold Street, Werk-En-Rust and 31-year-old Tyrone Parks of Eccles, East Bank Demerara.
The trio was remanded until July 23
They appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court Friday to answer to the charge.
It is alleged that between July 2 and 3 they broke and entered the store and carted off Gold and Diamond Jewellery valued at 20 million dollars and two million dollars in cash. The men were not required to plead.
The lawyers for the defendants in their application for bail told the court that during interrogation, the men were tortured and detained beyond seventy-two hours.
Prosecutor Neville Jeffers, however, objected to bail based on the serious nature of the offence, the amount stolen and the fact that the men have several matters of similar nature before the court.
Jeffers also told the court that Rodney and Defreitas admitted to cutting the safe while Parks’ role was to retrieve the items.
It is also reported that CCTV footage showed the defendants entering the Sleep-in hotel with the loot.
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