Bandits snatch 700K from Sophia family during home invasion
Apr 16, 2025
Kaieteur News- A family is in shock following a violent home invasion early Monday morning, when two armed bandits broke into their residence at B Field, Sophia, Georgetown, and escaped with $700,000 in cash, a laptop, two cell phones and a car key.
The couple, Rodra Jagnarine and his wife, Vanie, who were robbed during the home invasion (screenshot from Royston Drakes video)
Rodra Jagnarine and his wife, identified only as Vanie, were awakened between 02:00h and 02:30h by two intruders in their bedroom. According to Jagnarine, the bandits issued threats, demanding that the couple and their children, who were sleeping nearby, remain still.
“We wake up by two bandits in we room over we head (and) tell we don’t move and I jump up and give them a shuffle (scuffle) and the two run out,” he recounted.
Before the couple could fully react, the intruders had already ransacked the house. “Before we woke up, them emptied all the bags and in the front room, in the back room same thing, carry away everything, laptop, two cell phones and some cash,” Jagnarine stated. The bandits located the cash in the front room.
Jagnarine confronted the fleeing bandits. “Afterward, I jump out now and give them a jostle (fought back) and them run out the door. When they run out to the door, I grab the mop stick and run behind them and I fall on the road and then I end up and grab one of them and me and he had a shuffle, (scuffle)” he told reporters.
The window the couple believes the bandits made entry from (screenshot from Royston Drakes video)
The situation escalated when the second bandit, positioned a short distance away, opened fire.
“The next one was like eight feet away, and the one who me and he had a shuffle, he tell the next one shoot and the one that deh like eight feet away, he fire a shot on me,” Jagnarine said. He then retreated to retrieve a cutlass, but the bandits escaped.
The man’s wife, Vanie, also described the harrowing moment she woke to find an intruder in her room.
She said, “I was sleeping and I raise up my head, when I raise my head, I see somebody walking towards me, so he tell me let me don’t keep noise or he gon shoot me, he gon kill me. So, by the time me fuh get up, me husband wake up he turn he head the same time and that is it.”
The couple’s children were asleep next to their mother during the invasion. The couple believes the bandits gained entry through a small window near the toilet. A knife was also found by a side window, indicating a possible second entry attempt.
Visibly shaken, Vanie expressed her desire to relocate, fearing for the safety of her children. “Like me want move out from here, because me get three lil kids, how me ain’t want nobody harm them.”
The house that was robbed (screenshot from Royston Drakes video)
She continued, “Them (thief) gon gatta kill me this time, me does work hard fuh me money, right now me a work fuh me children them, me want a land, me want a house fuh me children them. That what me been work for, now thief man come and gone with all. I am a hard-working person. I want justice.”
She also spoke of the emotional toll of the invasion. “Up to now like my whole inside is so heavy, ah mean its material things right, thank god fuh we life, but still people can’t come just like that and take what you work hard for, now I know how people does feel, when I watch them on the phone now, I know, how people does talk and cry, now me know the feelings, when you work hard and somebody just come and grab it and gone.”
Vanie expressed her dismay that the perpetrators were young men, urging them to seek honest work. “And is young boys, when me was 15 years I start to work; why them don’t do the same,” she questioned.
Police are investigating the matter.
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