Georgetown: Three would be thieves got the shock of their lives this morning as they were caught ‘red handed’ in the act by an armed plain clothes police rank.
At about 09:15hrs a middle aged female shopper parked her motorcycle in the vicinity of Bourda and Orange Walk and entered the adjoining market to make a purchase while the drama unfolded unknowing to her.
According to eyewitnesses the men pounced on the locked motorcycle as she went into the market to make her purchase and broke into the storage compartment below the seat.
They retrieved a purse with an undisclosed sum of money along with her passport among other documents and attempted to make good their escape.
Unknowing to the bandits their action was being monitored by an armed plain clothes policeman who was witnessing all that transpired from a vantage point a mere few feet away.
As they attempted to make good their escape he challenged them and in the process discharged a warning shot into the air which stopped them in their tracks and they surrendered.
They were apprehended with the help of another police rank who was also nearby in plain clothes at the time and placed to lie on the ground until a mobile patrol arrived and whisked them off to the nearby police headquarters.
It was not until the female victim returned from her shopping that she realized all that had transpired.
The men are expected to be placed before the courts shortly.
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