Armed robbery suspects staged robbery Zhile on bail

The six gunmen who were nabbed in a stolen car on Tuesday include two former murder accused, and three other individuals out on bail on previous armed robbery charges.

2ne of the suspects has been described as a µserial robbery accused’ who was in court on similar charges just a day prior to his arrest. 3olice have identified the suspects as Steve Hercules,

0,1abadinghi *obin, ,Renard Khan, 1, 0ark 3rince,

,(dward Skeete, 0, and 0arvin Blackman, 2 . Skeete was charged and acTuitted for murder in )ebruary 201 , and was also acTuitted for another murder just two months ago. He appears to have first come under the police radar in July 200 , when he was charged with armed robbery. It was alleged that on July 1, 200 , Skeete and Dexter Chase, 2 , of (van 3hillips 3ark, Agricola, (ast Bank Demerara, entered the Royal Refrigeration building at John Street, :erk-en-Rust, and robbed the owner after holding him at gunpoint and binding him with duct-tape. The men fled on a bicycle, but a police patrol cornered them in Brickdam, where Skeete’s alleged accomplice was shot dead during an exchange of gunfire with the lawmen. Skeete was charged with armed robbery in that case.

Skeete, called µ3retty )ace’, was also charged for April 2011 murder of Bedi Ramjewan, who was shot dead during a robbery at Industry, (ast Coast Demerara, on April 2 , 2011. It was alleged that Skeete and an accomplice shot Ramjewan and relieved their victim of 20, which Ramjewan had just withdrawn from a city bank. However, Skeete was freed in )ebruary 201 , after a jury found him not guilty. Skeete was also freed last )ebruary for the murder of 0ocha, (ast Bank Demerara resident Ryan Clementson, who died at the *3HC after being attacked in the vicinity of Turning 3oint in Tucville, *eorgetown, on July 1 , 201 . He had been charged along with 1abadinghi *obin, called µDangles’, who was among those arrested with Skeete on Tuesday.

(Kaieteurnews)