Bandit nabbed, charged

(Kaieteur News) – Alex Pickering, the bandit who bolted with an undisclosed amount of cash after a female cashier grabbed his gun during a robbery at Hinds Gas Station in Linden last Friday, has been charged for the crime.

Reports are that he was arrested in Linden on Tuesday night. Pickering was recently released from prison for armed robbery. He was sentenced in absentia in 2018 for a robbery, which he had committed at Puruni Landing, Region Seven in 2017.

He was arrested and charged but the Bartica Magistrate Court had granted him bail and he never showed up for court again. A year later, he was nabbed in Linden and jailed after the court sentenced him to five years in prison in absentia.