Archive for January 17th, 2011
3 suspect robbers arrested
(CNS): Following three separate robberies over the weekend, police say they now have three men in custody in connection with two of them. The RCIPS said that after a police operation in the Northward area on Saturday night, the third man (aged 18) was arrested on suspicion of committing the robbery at the Plum Tree grocery Store on Friday evening in which a man sustained serious injuries to his head. The teenager is currently in police custody while enquiries continue and the victi who underwent surgery at the weekend, remains in hospital. Police also arrested two men on Saturday in connection with a robbery that evening at a George Town money transfer store only yards from police headquarters. Those two also remain in police custody. (Photo Dennie Warren Jr)
The weekend’s robberies started with the incident at the Plum Tree store in Northward at around 8:30pm. Police reported that two men, armed with machetes, entered the convenience store, assaulted the male member of staff and grabbed the cash register before making their escape. Then, some two hours later in West Bay, two members of staff at Tim Buc Tuu restaurant were held up at gunpoint as it was closing for the night by two robbers, who made off with both tips and takings. No one was hurt in that incident and so far police have not apprehended any suspects.
On Saturday evening the Reggae Money Express in Elizabethan Square, George Town, only yards from the offices occupied by the police commissioner, was alos robbed. One man entered the premises with what was believed to be a firearm, threatened staff and made off with a sum of cash. No shots were fired and no-one was hurt during that hold-up. Later in the evening police conducted an operation in the George Town area involving uniform, CID and armed officers and two men (aged 19 and 21 years) were arrested on suspicion of robbery, the RCIPS said.