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The quartet, 19-year-old Roopchand Thomas, 23-year-old Kelvin Munsie, 24-year-old Shawn Thompson and 20-year-old Joshua Beharry appeared before the Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh at the Albion Magistrates’ Court where they were remanded to prison until November 10 and before Magistrate Alex Moore at the Whim Magistrates’ Court where they were remanded until November 12.
The men were not required to enter a plea for the charges.
It is alleged that the foursome robbed four Corentyne residents of their personal belongings on October 4 and 13 respectively at Port Mourant. The men were arrested on October 16.
Information reaching Village Voice suggests that on October 4, the four men pounced on 48-year-old Soomdat Chattergoon, a security guard of Lot 2 Miss Phoebe, Port Mourant and Mahindra Ramdayal, a 37-year-old cane allocator of Lot 139 Miss Phoebe relieving them of their personal belongings. Similarly, on October 13, the quartet robbed Asif Ghani and Nankumar Namoo.
The four men, who are reportedly from the Rose Hall, community have had several brushes with the law in the past. The youngest, Thomas was a few months ago charged for simple larceny and robbery under arms committed on a tractor operator at Port Mourant. He was subsequently released on $100,000 bail.
Similarly, Thompson was charged and remanded to prison back in January 2017, for several robberies. In December 2016, Thompson and an accomplice armed with a firearm robbed Devendra Narine, a Nigg, East Berbice- Corentyne resident, of his cellular phone. Days after he was accused of robbing a Chinese couple at their, Lot 23 B Belvidere, Good Life Supermarket a sum of $500,000 along with US currencies and other valuables.
Thompson, had been appearing before courts since as a juvenile.
