Suspect in goldsmith robbery nabbed in N/A raid

In what has been described by Commander Assistant Commissioner Ian Amsterdam as more police- community partnership, the police seem to be getting more cooperation from the public, coupled with widening intelligence-

(Inset) Wanted man, Joel Grannum and other men held in the raid.

gathering mechanisms.

On Monday the cops received information that a wanted man was hiding in a tenement yard at the junction of Ferry Street and Princess Elizabeth Road in New Amsterdam.  The lawmen responded immediately and held a number of persons, male and female, including a man wanted for a number of criminal activities.
The man, Joel Grannum, gave a number of addresses including Samaroo Dam, Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara and Edinburgh, East Bank Berbice, among others. He is wanted for armed robbery and attempted murder committed on a goldsmith and his 16-year-old son at Rosignol on April 2.
Grannum was allegedly in company with another man on motorcycles when they committed the act. Another man, Bharat Madray ,27, of Shieldstown, West Coast Berbice, who was said to be the brain behind the act has already been charged.  Grannum will be grilled on the abovementioned and a number of other misdemeanors in Berbice and Demerara.
Two men who were also in the tenement yard when the police raided, were found with marijuana in their possession.