Rock Hole residents get in fight with burglar

(CNS) UPDATED MONDAY:  A 46-year-old man has now been charged with various offences following his arrest on suspicion of burglary following a fight in the yard of a house in George Town that was broken into early Friday morning. Police were called to the scene of a disturbance at around 2:15 that morning ( 13 November) in the Rock Hole Road area of the capital. When the officers got there they found that the family members at the house had attempted to detain a man on their property and “an altercation had ensued”, an RCIPS spokesperson stated.

The suspect was arrested nearby but both he and the family members were taken to George Town hospital for treatment of minor injuries sustained during the fight. The local man has now been charged with Burglary, Theft, Insulting the Modesty of a Woman and GBH and was expected to appear in court Monday.