$100,000 robbery at Gayle PC Bank
THE Gayle People’s Cooperative Bank in St Mary was yesterday robbed of more than $100,000 by four gunmen.
According to the police, shortly after midday four men arrived at the bank in a white Toyota motor car. Two of the men entered the bank posing as customers, brandished guns, held up the staff and demanded that they hand over the cash.
The two men, the police said, took two metal boxes containing more than $100,000 in cash and cheques from the bank staff, while the other two gunmen remained “on guard” outside the bank.
The robbers then left in the white Toyota motor car.
The robbery at the Gayle PC Bank brings to 10 the number PC banks robbed over the past 12 months and is the second major bank robbery in St Mary in three months.
Nine gunmen in April held up and robbed the Oracabessa branch of the Bank of Nova Scotia and escaped with more than $4 million in cash. Six of the suspects are now before the court on charges in connection with that robbery.
