2 remanded over $3.3M Essequibo Coast robbery

…accomplice jailed for 58 months

Two men have been remanded to prison in connection with an armed robbery in which $3.3 million was stolen from a contractor at Cottonfield, Essequibo Coast, Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam), while one of the accused has been sentenced to 58 months’ imprisonment after pleading guilty to separate firearm and ammunition charges.

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Preston Skeet, 30, a labourer with addresses in Linden, Region Ten, and Westbury, Essequibo Coast, and Jarrel Barker, 25, a taxi driver of De Kinderen, West Coast Demerara, appeared before Magistrate Ravindra Mohabir at the Anna Regina Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.