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15 guns stolen from security company
by Daily Nation
Posted: Oct 27, 2009 12:21 UTC
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PORT-OF SPAIN - A massive search was launched last night to recover 15 loaded guns which were stolen from a Woodbrook security company by two men, one pretending to be a police officer.
Roadblocks were set up as far as Chaguanas and other areas throughout the country within 60 minutes after the robbery as the police fear the distribution of the cache of weapons into the hands of criminals could prove to be a major stumbling block in their war against crime.
Police said, that at about 3:15 p.m., the two men entered the MI 5 security firm at 40 Alfredo Street. The man dressed as the police officer told a female security guard on duty that he had come to "drop off something", and needed to get behind the counter.
The lone security officer, whose name was not released by police, and who was in the building at the time, had no problem letting the "police officer" inside, and did not ask for identification, investigators said.
She had seen him speaking with the other man just minutes before, through the surveillance camera positioned on the outside of the building, and believed that he was genuinely a police officer.
It was only after she had opened the door, and allowed the "officer" behind the counter, that he pulled out a gun, placed it to her head and announced a hold-up, police said.
He struck her to the mouth with the butt of the gun, knocking out a tooth, before forcing her to the ground and duct-taping both her feet and hands, investigators added.
Both men then proceeded to open the metal box which contained the firearms.
In all, 13 nine millimetre pistols, one .357 handgun and a shotgun were taken. They were all fully loaded, police said. The men then escaped in a waiting car, police said.
(Trinidad Express)
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