Store clerk pistol whipped

| 04/03/2011

(CNS): In Cayman’s latest armed robbery one of the two suspects pistol whipped a member of staff with his gun before he and his accomplices left the store. Police said that at around nine o’clock on Thursday evening, 3 March, two masked men entered the DVD Store on Walkers Road. One of the men was armed with what appeared to be a handgun. The robbers threatened the store clerk and demanded cash. Despite receiving money the man with the gun hit the cashier with the gun before leaving the store, though no shots were fired and the cashier did not require any medical attention. The suspects are described as both being around 5’5" in height. They were wearing dark clothing and had their faces covered. (Photo by Dennie Warren Jr)

This is now the 14th robbery of 2011 since a report of a street mugging on Wednesday could not be verified by police. This brings the country’s current robbery rate to one incident every 3.8 days.

Anyone with information about the crime, or who saw the suspects before the incident or leaving the scene, should call George Town police station on 949-4222 or the confidential Crime Stoppers number 800-8477 (TIPS).

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  1. Anonymous says:

    All these robbers makin a joke out of the police. And they way things are and how slack RCIP is, who can blame them.

  2. Anonymous says:

    The Premier seems willing to hit out at those trying to save the environment. When is he going to hit at at the criminals????

     
  3. The Crown says:

    In the meantime.. the Premier is in la,la land,somewhere between grand extravagant ideas & a distant planet. My god.. i need to start stratching another part of my head. Obviously all of the potential (investors) are deaf people who walk with sticks & seeing eye dog’s. My gosh.. from the minute their was a duties increase crime has gone through the roof. My god.. there’s a budget surplus now & there is NO reduction in duties. A fuel duty needs no company,it by it self effects everything. Someone please tell me that what our forefather’s have founded & what we all have contributed to isn’t going to vanish under unabated crime, simply because one man doesn’t have the vision to care. 

  4. Michel Lemay says:

    From all this we can no longer ignore the facts that events and type of robberies are no more to be messed with. We cam’t blame the pokice for everything happening BUT criminal intelligence is what we need nost. Tnese scumbags love to bragg ! Start recruiting CONFIDENTIAL informants
    and paying them. You need Street Wise individuals who want to clean up this place. People need others they can trust on ALL information provided that is guaranteed to remain confidential.. I Please ask all the powers that be to put your heads together and come up with a good plan. Use the Special Constables involved pn surveillance. Immigration print the names of overstayers in the media once a week. Wr need to go back to the Immigration must have Immigation CARD. with address of intended work place. That way any approved authorities can follow uip easier. Deputised members of the public who could volunter. Do we want to clean this place up or not ? I don’t understand why this is not our # 1 priority on EVERYBODY’S mind. It needs to start from the top. God Bless

  5. Anonymous says:

     As anyone heard of if you keep doing the same thing over and over again you will get the same results?

    The plan is simple: arm the police and security guards.

    How many banks and shops you hear about getting robbed even in our neighbor Jamaica?

    I would suggest the police contact interpol about the tourist that robbed the shop because that was a professional who I am sure has done it before somewhere else.  No amateur could pull that off.  Of course, we are easy pickings.

  6. ANONYMOUS says:

    As I said before, we should politics aside and work together to contain this cancer in our society.

    Just remember, any one of us could be the next victim

  7. Anonymous says:

    dats bad very bad for cayman but i rather hear bout robberies dan murders

  8. UDP Supporter says:

    We need to toughen our laws and make sure every criminal is either locked up forever or quickly executed. Bring back the death penalty now and we can protect our Christian people and heritage! Cayman deserves better than these criminals!

    • Anonymous says:

      It’s the Christians that are doing it!  They are just as bad!

    • Anonymous_A woa says:

      But trouble is even the laws we have now aren’t being enforced.

  9. Anonymous says:

    I think they need to recruit more local RCIPS – these foreigners have no interest in our crime or the future of the Cayman Islands as they are only here to collect a cheque, leave and invest those funds into their own country! It’s sad but true – I mean really, who wants to play cops and robbers when the robbers are the only ones equipped with weapons – not these foreigners that are only here on permit! They have their own families to go back home to. Get real Cayman, we as Caymanians have to stand up for our Country, even when it is against our fellow Caymanians who have lost site to what really matters and looking for the “short term fix” not taking into consideration the “long term affects” that crime takes on a neighborhood, community and country. Cayman is too beautiful of a place, let’s try and keep it that way for our people who were born on these Islands – this is our land, our home and we have to live here! Young men and ladies, stop committing these crimes – it is your future and the future of your children tha will pay the highest price if it continues. Food for thought……..

    • Forget gun amnesty says:

      Forget gun amnesties…..it is time to call the cops and tell them you think your neighbor has a gun!  We need the police to start searching cars and homes!

      Call the police when you see two men lurking suspiciously- these robberies seem to have men in pairs…..someone KNOWS these thugs.  

      Sorry, when these criminals are getring caught, their last names are not Boucher,  Cruz, Gonzales, or Dombrowski.

  10. Anonymous says:

    Yada yada yada, cameras catch criminals in the act all the time but yet the RCIPS fail to catch the criminals! Why? because the persons committing these crimes are smarter and way ahead of the system… they wear masks and commit crimes when persons least expect –  in the broad daylight! Time for residents, store owners and bank employees to really be aware of your surroundings and what is taking place because these criminals have a plan and they are watching YOU with their God given eyes – not some CCTV – you need to do the same! Stand up and speak!  Be prepared to give a good description of the very shoe size and colour! Look for any distinguishing features such as a mole or a tattoo.  I cant believe the RCIPS is not out giving seminars on how to provide a good description???  Mrs. Martha Ebanks, you did a great job at BOB and now that you work for Gov’t – try and assist with this type of training. Get people involved and build confidence in the "Public Eye" to come forward when such are being committed.  It is truly the only way to ensure justice is served against these imbeciles!

  11. Anonymous says:

    To pistol whip an unarmed crime victim shows a willingness to violence that raises the bar in the armed robberies here in Cayman.

    The cowardly behavior of this thug makes his capture and being brought to justice imperative for the safety of the people.

    Someone who likes violence has a reputation here and has done violence before. Anyone who knows this person needs to tell authorities.

    I am disgusted by the people here that protect these criminals.

    • Anonymous says:

      Whoever protects criminals are as guilty as they are and should suffer the same consequences as the criminals. How about being cell mates in a REAL prison; not the 5 star hotel called Northward?

  12. sick and fed up says:

    An old Jamaican saying : "Everyday de buket go a well,one day de battom a go drap out"………..people don’t worry,cause very soon one by one dust will be their new form.

  13. Anonymous says:

    OK. Now listen up geniuses. Has anybody spotted a pattern? Anyone in law enforcement at all? A large amount of these armed robberies are happening on Thursday’s and Fridays. I understand un-armed officers aren’t going to go chasing armed robbers so this is what you need to do. 1) station armed response units in strategic points throughout the island on these days… especially in the evenings: Four way stop, westbay / Walkers Road / Savannah etc… there’s probably only 5 spots you need them at. 2) have the helicopter on standby (when it returns). 3) Call comes in there is armed robbery, helicopter is up in minutes as it is already prepared and armed response units are immediately mobilized. Bad guys should be caught within 10 minutes. Problem solved.

  14. Anonymous says:

    We are all getting robbed. For those of use who have bought expensive homes we’ll have lost lost several hundred thousand dollars in the value of our properties as this continues. Especially if the Crooks in government get their way with oil refineries and dredges in North Sound. Most of these armed robberies are to fuel crack/coke addictions. These guys are not robbing to put food on the table. People who want to work can find enough work to eat. These guys who are doing this don’t work becuase no one would hire them. They would have to get clean an rehabilitated first. They need it so they’ll do anything. I know, I HAD a brother who had battles with being hooked on coke all his life. We had a great upbringing. Great Parents. He was a gentle as a lamb when he was young. He got a hold of coke and turned to robbing and even assault to keep his addiction fueled. He completley changed. In an out of prison his whole life. His only child the same. Doing the same thing. It was like we we from two different families. These guys that are robbing will continue to do so until they are locked up. We must cut off the supply. The dope isn’t flying on to the island. It’s coming in at all hours of the night through unprotected borders. You have to wonder if anyone is profiting from looking the other way. How could we not have better border control? It’s like we have no border protection at all. We have no Radar? Is there a toll fee to let the boats slip in and out? You have to wonder. Who is watching the guys that are supposed to be doing the watching? Parents, wives, siblings of the addicted. You love your brother, son, husband for the way you remember them to be..maybe as a child or during better times. If they taking coke they are completley not the same person. They don’t look much the same either but inside just black. That’s what coke does for a person. While try are killing themselves they are killing everything around them, the future of the island. their family. In the states it is easy, you can get intervention by police and get them checked into rehab without going to Jail. Not here. All they do in Jail is meet more criminals. So what can be done? Not much. The best thing we can do is realize that Governments Job IS us the people. We need to demand border protection to make it very harder and more dangerous for the drugs to reach our shores. Maybe an impossible task if individuals in the police and government are profiting from looking the other way. The government would be aout looking to do stupid things to stimulate the economy if the had been doing their job all along. Priority is security. Derelection of duty should be the same thing as treason if you are in charge of your countries security and fail in every way. SUCH AS 3,000 Status Grants with no background checks.

  15. West Bayer says:

    Thursday night special!!! Friday night party!

  16. Anonymous says:

    Another robbery at the north end of Walker’s Road – two men again.  Come on!!! Someone must know who they are – give them up for heaven’s sake!!!  This place is getting bad – i usually don’t admit it but now I have to.  Robberies everywhere, car break-ins, cars having wheels taken, even schoolkids trying to rob other schoolkids whilst they are at sports day!!!  We all need to stop this – all of us.

     
    • sooth sayer says:

      you will not stop this as long as you do not call your police to task. baines  (deliberate small ‘b’) is not doing his job, get rid of him. He is a puppet of the leaders there, and you reap the rewards. The man doesn’t have the spuds to stand up for justice for the people of Cayman.

      Why does ‘faces covered’ always mean that the suspect’s ethnicity is never reported? Hands covered? arms covered? legs covered? ears covered? come on ‘victims’, help yourselves to solve these.

      The RCIP is pathetic, and the only people who will say so are either skilled lower ranking officers who actually do give a s***, or the people who are supposed to be served by the RCIP.

      No one is causing the cops to do their jobs, from the kiddie fiddler, through the grinning idiot, down to the coat hangers. Only you cayman can change this.

  17. Anonymous says:

    What an array of CCTV cameras will help is:

    a) the possibility of obtaining a more complete view of a criminal’s movement, where, for example, a ‘get away’ vehicle is parked a few blocks away.    If one camera picks up the criminal in one spot, then another at another spot etc, we might be able to obtain enough cumulative evidence to identify someone.  

    Right now, all we can hope to get is a video or picture if the store or home has an installed camera.   Couple this with cameras in the public then we should be able to obtain some further video evidence.

    b) witness assistance.   For example, a video from a mile away from a crime might show the suspect doing something unusual, and people in or driving by the area (captured in the video) might recollect the unusual activity.   As well, witnesses who are ‘afraid’ to come forth might be compelled to come forth if, for example, their vehicle and license is captured in a video. 

    c)  potential criminals know they are being ‘watched’, by more than just potential video at a store, bank or residence.  This make things much more complicated. 

  18. Anonymous says:

    With a modern technology every resident of Cayman Islands can’t be monitored 24 x 7.

  19. Anonymous says:

    I think that these robberies are occurring because it’s easy money to get a drug quick fix. Therein lies one of the major problems.

    I have seen this kind of criminal activity creep into a society and take root. More folk get monitored alarm systems at home (if they can afford it.) You start seeing burglar bars on windows and doors.

    As people become more involved with the drug habit, it starts costing more money. Sometimes these crimes become increasingly more violent, in proportion to the amount of money or goods stolen. This can be a sign that users are going for the cheaper meth type, home cooked drugs-where desperation for that next fix, sees serious assault on victims for a few dollars or a cell phone.

  20. Anonymous says:

    I told you all that these type of criminal activities in the Cayman Islands were coming and now it’s here, it’s reality !! The police hi-tec vessels can’t seem to get the drug/firearm smugglers that are entering our jurisdiction on a weekly basis, their hi-tech helicopter is a waste of time and is burning away on their operation budget with high maintenance; the RCIPS upper management is like a bunch of chicken’s running around in circles with their head’s almost decapitated; while middle management and the lower ranks, are confused without no sense of direction.

    Unfortunately, I will wake up one morning and will read the awful/terrrible news that some tourist is killed while vacationing here or a lower ranking police officer was killed in the line of duty.

    This situation that we’re now in, is not something that really happened overnight. In fact, upper management policy decisions and their so called strategic plans, are today’s inefficiences/ineffectiveness in crime fighting. They were all formed and sowed from far back as mid/late 2005.

    And so, lawlessness is the norm of the day.

  21. Nj2Cay says:

    Thursday night robbery. Im sure thats not a surprise. But beware, its Fright Night in the Caymans tonight. Friday is a good day to stay off the streets and lock all your doors and windows because the freaks come out on Friday Night. Residents be on the lookout for the Stick Up Man, look out for your friends and family and if you see something suspicious do not ignore it, we all know they are out there looking for victims like wolves look for sheep and the RCIPS will be no help until after the fact so be prepared to protect yourself your family and property. After all its you that worked all week for your money not them.

  22. Anonymous says:

    Hey Caymanian.  Yes you.  You know I’m talking to you.  You know who these robbers are, and you know they are destroying what little is left of your country.   What are you doing staying silent while this happens?  Is your country not worth defending?

    • TCM29 says:

      Looks like your subculture is no different than the one we (unfortunately) have in the states, as they also do not report crime perpetrators under any circumstances.

      • Anonymous says:

        Don’t know where you live in the U.S. but where I lived in the police CAPTURED robbers. Watch The First 48 on A&E if you want to see how REAL cops solve crimes.

        • Henry Hill says:

          Its a flippin scripted TV show for crying out loud. Real world doesn’t make good TV. Good TV is not real world.

  23. Miller says:

    CNS: “Store Clerk Pistol Whipped” And yet I haven’t heard anything from our Government or the Commissioner of Police on at least providing homeowners and business owners with some form of protection to arm themselves or to arm their employees. It doesn’t have to be firearms, but some sort of protection is needed, because one day someone innocent is going to get kill, and then what??? Sorry, but CCTV camaras can’t do sh%t! These robbers are wearing mask and not scared to commit offences in broad day light!

    • Hello! says:

      I think when someone has a firearm in front of your face, it is safer for you to comply than attempt to retaliate. That could be dangerous to you and other people.

      • anonymous says:

        08:52 Hello, I agree with what you are saying, but sunce this is out of hand, you tell me what we should do. I believe we should have a marching leader who with all of Cayman joining him or her should ask that the businesses lock down the place for a half day and go straight to glass house. Demand that all those in Northward be sent to overseas prison. Franz manderson is too saft for the position he has. That job needs someone who talks strong, walks strong, and acts strong. Do you hear any of these politicians or rich government representatives /people getting robbed. NO. Why not? Why should they care if the little man on the street is being robbed, they have enough money to walk protected. BUT be careful if PPM and UDP does not work together for the better of Cayman worse will happen. Wait till next election and see if anyone will be comming out to support meetings. Crazy, for their homes to be robbed while they are out, ot they get robbed going home from meeting. Calling on Franze Manderson now, along with our governments UDP and PPM as far as I am concerned, UDP and PPM are all Government . So do now aht has to be done. Leave the darn paper signing to stop this project and that project, Cayman is going down to the pits of crime while you numbskulls are fighting over foolishness. I cannot wait untill election time to give this Island a good reason not to vote for any of you.

    • Anonymous says:

      Clearly the traditional “slow-to-react-let’s-play-detective-after-the-bad-guys-are-long-gone” approach to armed robbery that has been taken by the RCIPS is not working. I don’t understand why there are not more Authorized Firearms Officers on patrol 24 hours a day? The Commissionor has overtly said that he doesn’t want to arm the entire police service and that he has specially trained firearms officers to deal with armed criminals. My thoughts are this: The Government has given their full financial support to the police to deal with the dramatic rise is serious crime; since this is the case, why are the police not utilizing it? If you have specially trained officers to deal with these armed criminals, here’s a thought, “specially train” more!!! The Police have always tried to play down what is happening with serious crime, and whilst I agree to a certain extent that they should be careful not to invoke national panic, it’s obvious to everyone here that crime is skyrocketing. “National prayer” didn’t work, “We know which criminal have the guns” didn’t help slow the crime down either and my personal favourite was when the commissionor said the robberies are “isolated incedents”….. When we have isolated incedents every 3.8 days, ITS NOT AN ISOLATED INCEDENT!!!!!! Thank goodness we don’t operate like the US Sherriffs Department, you would have been ousted long ago!

    • anonymous says:

      Millier please, I know you are frustrated, buy what can the Commissioner of police or the Governmant going to do to protect you. Nothing, they need protecting themselves. Police cannot stand by peoples business pace or by their front andback door all day and night.. Get a grip on , XXXXX. I agree that these cameras is a waste of money, unless they can automatically zoom in on quick movements in these places. To really speak the truth, I am sick of hearing this every day, and not only locally it is happening, but professionals comming off Cruise ships and robbing jewellery stores too. I am going to suggest to Franz Manderson and the UDP and the PPM to stop the Friggin arguing in LA and come together and bring the attention of these happenings to England. Ask if prisoners can be sent off the Island to do crime time in Cuba or Jamaica or some darn place that is hell for themin prison. Stop keeping them here feeding their sorrowful asses, or sending them to court and they are given a few years. Change the LAW, give life sentence for these crimes of robbery. Apparently this is a situation which has the police frustrated, and truly speaking, what can the police do any way. It is a six and half a dozen situation. The police dont have guns and if they are armed, we will be having shoot out in our neighbourhood, and all of those encouraging parents will be complaining to their paint- can politicians that their children is being illtreated. It may sound harsh, it may sound brutal, it may sound barbaric, it may sound outlawed, but HELL, enough is enough. I say every dog and cat on this Island need to protect him or herself, and their business.. XXXX

      • Anonymous says:

        Police do not need arms they need some brains…but having said that we all know that the reasons why nobody has been caught yet…

      • Anonymous says:

        The police do have guns 24/7, it’s just not all the police have guns. So what are you on about??

  24. Anonymous says:

    Cayman’s crime wave continues to increase.

    Almost everyday, a new crime is reported, and the police seem to ineffective.

    It is as if every potential criminal now knows that crime pays on Cayman, so why not commit some?

    How much lost tourism income is being caused by our crime wave, by crimes such as being mugged on a Cayman beach in broad daylight?

    That lost income could be more than enough to clear every criminal off these Islands.

    Deploying cameras will not stop these criminals. We need armed police on our streets who are trained to shoot to kill.

     

  25. Right ya so says:

     So, stealing’s not enough??! Now they have to attack their victims!?  What a bunch of losers.

    They’re really thumbing their noses at the RCIPS now!

    • Anonymous says:

      Be real if they wear mask and we can’t give better description than tall and black that is half of cayman how can they find them the clerk are not caymanian they don’t know any one so how can they id they so give the police a break if we know who they are then tell the police since they are not doin there job.

    • Dennie Warren Jr. says:

      Nope, their thumbing their noses at the public, because it’s the individual member of the public who has chosen not to arm themselves.  It’s not the Governments fault.

      • Right ya so says:

        they’re or they are not ‘their’

        this is not about the public arming themselves it’s about the criminals not getting caught

        and it’s about the public not turning their baby fathers, brothers, cousins, friends in to the authorities

        it’s not about owning guns

        • Dennie Warren Jr. says:

          Re: "thisis not about the public arming themselves it’s about the criminals not getting caught"

          Clearly you don’t understand the connection.