Archive for March 3rd, 2011
Robbery ‘victim’ changes tune
(CNS): Updated 10:45am — While police reported yesterday that at around 11.15 am that day, Wednesday 2 March, officers received a report that a man had been robbed at gunpoint outside a house in Dogwood Street, Prospect., this morning they said that the alleged victim would not confirm the robbery. The RCIPS said the man stated in the initial report that cash and jewellery were taken during the incident and that he was uninjured. However, they when the police arrived he became uncooperative, refused to confirm any details of what took place or provide a description of the alleged suspect. "Therefore we are unable to provide any confirmation that the incident took place or that the circumstances, as initially reported to police, are correct," and RCIPS spokesperson said.
The incident, if it took place, was the 14th robbery of 2011, and despite the significant number of arrests made by police recently, including yesterday when three suspects were apprehended after a robbery at the Tortuga store in West Bay, the perpetrators of these violent crimes seem to be limitless. In most cases the suspects are using firearms to threaten people and businesses for very small quantities of cash, a trend which, experts say, illustrates a growing use of crack cocaine on Grand Cayman.