Video: Police release images of two persons who robbed pawn shop

8 September 2015 09:58 am

The police today released  images captured by CCTV cameras  of a robbery where  Rs. 600,000 was stolen  along  with Rs. 53,760,000 worth of gold jewellery from a pawning centre at Ja-ELa on August 15.

They sought public assistance to identify the two men who carried out the robbery. The thieves had threatened  the two female employees at the pawning centre with a knife and had proceeded to rob the place after having tied them up.

The police had recovered the video footage off a security camera installed at a shop located in close proximity to the pawn shop. They requested the public to provide any information that might lead to the identification of the robbers on the following phone numbers-: Senior DIG-Kelaniya: 071 8531583, Assistant DIG Kelaniya II: 0718591594, Police Media Centre: 011 2327227, Ja-Ela Police Station: 011 2236222, 011 2236131, OIC Ja-Ela Police: 0718591603 or the Crime OIC: 078 5308291.

Police said the informant who provides  them with correct information that would help them to solve the case would be given a reward of Rs. 500,000 by the pawing centre’s owner. (Lahiru Pothmulla)