Teen arrested for bank heist
(CNS): A 17-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with an armed robbery at the Compass Centre branch of the Butterfield Bank yesterday, when three masked men who held up staff and customers. The teen was arrested during a police operation in the West Bay area last night on suspicion of robbery, police said Thursday afternoon. George Town police officers are currently interviewing witnesses and reviewing the CCTV footage obtained from the bank in an effort to track down all three men responsible, the RCIPS revealed. Despite the quick arrest, Detective Sergeant Richard Scott (left) is stressing that the enquiry is still at a very early stage.(Photo courtesy of Cayman 27)
“The faces of the men involved in the robbery were hidden by the Halloween masks,” he said. “At the moment officers are re-interviewing witnesses and viewing the CCTV footage. We will, when it is appropriate in terms of the investigative lines of enquiry, release the footage to the media and the public. Today, I would like to ask anyone who was in the area at the time of the incident, who has not yet spoken to police to come forward. The bank sits on a busy junction – if you saw anyone running away or even a vehicle driving off at speed, please let us know. It has been extensively reported that one of the robbers was wearing an Obama mask. If you know of anyone who has one of these masks please get in contact with the enquiry team at George Town police station.”
Anyone with any information about this crime should call George Town police station on 949-
4222 or the confidential Crime Stoppers number 800-8477(TIPS).
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These armed robberies have been carried out by only a handfull of criminals in my opinion.
Catching some of them will go a long way in showing others that crime doesn’t pay.
Good – but as I recall they arrested the CNB robbers too and nothing further
PLEASE!! If there is anyone out there that knows anything please let the police know. Just about everybody on this island, unless they are an expat has a family member that works in the banking industry here. What if next time someone gets shot and it’s a family member. Maybe your mother, father, son, daughter ,sister, brother, niece, nephew, cousin good friend etc work in a bank. What if something happens to one of them, please talk. If anyone out there know who these criminals are, do the right thing.Someone has to know or seen something, these persons didn’t just evaporate after the robbery. How do we expect a change if we don’t help the police. They need our help. Quite honestly it seems like foreigners will be quicker to come forward with what they seen, than our own Caymanians will.
XXXXX The last robbery at CNB, there were some arrested but no one to the publics knowledge was CHARGED. This is the same same. A few gorrillas are taken back to the zoo, only to be set loose again in the jungle. I for one am tired of them stealing my bannanas!
This unreal that the Police took 14 minutes as reported by the public to get there. They are less then a mile away. I hope they can bring justice to this event, but that is just hope mis-placed.
On another note where is DAVID BAINES the COMMISSIONER OF POLICE???