The ban­dit who was caught on cam­era danc­ing in a bar with a high-pow­ered ri­fle dur­ing a rob­bery in Debe ear­li­er this week has been ar­rest­ed.

He is be­lieved to be one of four sus­pects held with two firearms by of­fi­cers of the Debe High­way pa­trol and High­way Pa­trol Task Force on Thurs­day night in Debe.

The 33-year-old sus­pect, a fish­er­man of Pe­nal, was seen danc­ing dur­ing the rob­bery at Lau­ra’s Bar in which the ban­dits al­so helped them­selves to a quan­ti­ty of al­co­hol.

How­ev­er, he was among four sus­pects ar­rest­ed around 10:20pm af­ter of­fi­cers who were on a joint ex­er­cise saw three ob­jects thrown out of the left rear win­dow of a light blue Nis­san Almera head­ing in their di­rec­tion along the south­bound lane of the Solomon Ho­choy High­way.

The items fell in­to the bush­es. The of­fi­cers pre­vent­ed the car from mov­ing, ap­proached and or­dered the four oc­cu­pants to ex­it the ve­hi­cle. Up­on search­ing the bush­es, the of­fi­cers found a blue lunch bag con­tain­ing $979 and a white bag with a AK47 and a re­volver loaded with 18 rounds of 7.62 am­mu­ni­tion and six rounds of .38 am­mu­ni­tion. A black plas­tic bag con­tained a quan­ti­ty of au­to elec­tron­ics and ac­ces­sories, in­clud­ing five cel­lu­lar phones and eight packs of cig­a­rettes.

A cut­lass was found in the car. The of­fi­cers then searched the men and found a large sum of mon­ey in­clud­ing TT$12,754, $US 29 cur­ren­cy, $50 Suri­name cur­ren­cy and $20 in Venezue­lan cur­ren­cy. In­quires lat­er re­vealed that the sus­pects and the re­cov­ered items fit­ted the de­scrip­tion of a re­port of rob­bery ear­li­er that day at BW Im­ports Ltd at Pa­pourie Road, Di­a­mond Vil­lage, San Fer­nan­do.

The of­fi­cers sub­se­quent­ly ex­e­cut­ed search war­rants at the homes of the sus­pects but noth­ing found noth­ing il­le­gal. The oth­er sus­pects in­clude a 20-year-old labour­er of Point Lisas, a 43-year-old equip­ment op­er­a­tor of Bar­rack­pore and a 31-year-old labour­er of Di­a­mond Vil­lage, San Fer­nan­do.

The sus­pects are ex­pect­ed to be placed on iden­ti­fi­ca­tion pa­rades in re­la­tion to sev­er­al oth­er rob­beries. Su­per­vis­ing ex­er­cise and search­es were In­sp Cadette, Ag Sgt Jairaj, Cpl Ma­haraj, Ag Cpl Lul­cool and Ag Cpl Dhanasar.

Amer­i­can singer ear­li­er this week had up­loaded the vi­ral video of the danc­ing ban­dit to his In­sta­gram sto­ries along with his song en­ti­tled Warm Em­brace.

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