Two men have been accused of assaulting security guards and making off with $6M worth of computer equipment from St Aidan's Primary School, Wismar.

                     

 

Daniel De Souza of 915 Victory Valley and Radcliffe Frank of 932 Half Mile Wismar, both appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Juliet Holder-Allen yesterday.

They were remanded after pleading not guilty to the charge of robbery under arms and will reappear in court on December 3.

Another man said to be involved in the theft is yet to be identified.

It is alleged that on Wednesday at Blue Berry Hill in Region 10 both accused attacked two security guards with handguns before attempting to take $6,312,300 worth of goods from the school.

These included one word processor, one monitor and keyboard, four UPSs, Twelve CPUs, one projector, one laser jet printer, and six earphones all the property of the Ministry of Education.

The case against the two states that guards, Ann Holland, employed by Amazon Security Service and Brental Allen, were doing the nightshift at the school.

At about 12:30 am they were attacked by three men, two of whom were carrying handguns.

The victims were placed in the school corridor as the men allegedly went into the computer room and took the mentioned articles. They subsequently made good their escape after an alarm was raised.

In the aftermath a search was carried out around the school grounds and a silver grey car was found containing a quantity of the missing items. Some were found in a nearby bush.

Both defendants were arrested and told of the allegations against them. Frank said he was the driver of the car but then stated he was hijacked by two men and that the vehicle was taken near to the school.

De Souza claimed he was not around at the time of the incident.