Women robbed in two separate street muggings
(CNS): The robbery toll climbed again this week with another two armed robberies Wednesday night and early Thursday morning on the streets of George Town and West Bay. Two women were both mugged by armed men in two separate crimes, one involving a lone gunman and the other three masked men, one armed with an undisclosed weapon. The first woman was robbed just after 7:30pm on Apollo Link in George Town.
As she walked along the roadside, a vehicle pulled up in front of her and a man got out of the car brandishing what appeared to be a firearm and demanded her possessions. The man took her bag and several personal items before fleeing the scene. No shots were fired and the woman was not physically injured in the incident. The mugger was described as being slim, of dark complexion, with shoulder-length braids and wearing a hat.
Then shortly after 1:20am Thursday, the police were called to an apartment complex on Andresen Road in West Bay. Police said a woman was mugged by three men after parking her car at the location. The men had pulled up in a vehicle and parked nearby. They got out of a dark grey Honda sedan and approached the victim as she was sitting in her vehicle.
One of the men opened the door, brandished an unknown object at her, and demanded cash. The men then returned to their car and fled the scene with a mobile phone, several personal items and an undisclosed quantity of cash. This woman was not physically hurt during the mugging.
The suspects were all described as having light brown complexions. One had a chubby build and was about 5’8″ tall. He was wearing a red hoodie, mask and grey jeans. The second robber was also chubby, with curly hair, wearing a black hoodie with a mask. The third man was skinny and tall and wore a white hoodie.
These two robberies bring the current count to eight since the end of September, at least six of which have involved guns.
No arrests have been made and both of these street robberies are currently under investigation by RCIPS detectives. Anyone with information is asked to call George Town CID at 949-4222 or West Bay CID at 949-3999. Anonymous tips can be provided to the RCIPS Confidential Tip Line at 949-7777 or the website.
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Difficult to police a society where certain persons leave parental responsibility to the state. Stop having children if you can’t raise them to contribute to society instead of draining it.
Jamaican men don’t like contraception, they think it makes them less manly.
It’s up to the silly 15 year old baby mamas to take precautions, but they’re too stupid or uninformed.
And how many tourists will be coming back with gun crime on the rise and. ow way to protect yourself?
As soon as ONE tourist suffers a mugging holdup or robbery, kiss quality tourism goodbye.
Tourists in Jamaica are the younger less affluent demographic, but even they stay at guarded all inclusive stockades.
My family has lived here for almost twenty years, but we have decided to find a better and safer place.
Goodbye Cayman Islands.
Good riddance
7:49 pm, try Cayman Brac , where its still very safe and friendly
Way more than we need.
People get real. The ONLY time RCIP’S are successful in busts is after they have arrested someone who can give them information.
For RCIP & FRU. Police work is not their thing. They only good for traffic work
Or visiting teenagers like Skylar.
Who had a caymanian boyfriend and they both broke the law.
Zero faith in our police. Yep, all I can see them accomplishing is standing on highways to catch people doing 53 in what should be a 50 mph speed zone on a triple lane highway.
I had a vehicle stolen and had to find it myself, but their FRU quick to pull me over simple because I changed lanes twice. With indicator. Let me off with a “warning for dangerous driving”?! Slow day?! Rejects that wanna stroke their ego is all.
They don’t even do any traffic work. Our roads are full of terrible drivers.
We have more policemen per head of the poorly than most US cities, they have a massive budget, yet they cannot seem to deal with basic crime prevention. They can’t even manage to follow basic protocols for motor vehicle accidents ( being generous and assuming that was incompetence and not corruption or favouritism). May as well defund them and spend the money on social programs.
Exactly! It is pitiful! Some heads need to roll or just retire !
What changes do you suggest they embrace?
stop and frisk, heavy patrolling, undercover operations and a cash reward program for information leading to arrests of serious violations of law. it’s not that difficult.
Make it harder for Jamaicans to come here, do more checks on them, they are the most of the problem
…and still giving out awards! Any wonder this is happening again n again.
7:49 pm, try Cayman Brac , where its still very safe and friendly
Small population and geting out of hand… need stronger and severe sanctionsm
This is just a Tip of the Ice Berg Worst left to come.Very Sad What our Little Island have Become.
I wonder what they think their future will be like.
Hey punks. You don’t crap in your own yard and Cayman is your yard. Other people work hard for their money for things they need to survive. You arrogant little punks think you are better than these ladies. I hope they print your names, addresses and photos when you are caught and jailed.
These “punks” are only here because Mac Kenneth Saunders and Seymour want their votes.
Stop importing economic dependent people from Jamaica .
Or anywhere else.
Caught… jailed… maybe in a year when the perps slip up and out themselves somehow. I’m sure this is already on the backlog for the RCIPS
Cayman is too easy on crime, need Singapore law here.
RCIP should start “Bait Car” setups
Lol bait car too much like work!
Come on Mr Roper you’re in charge of the RCIP with you finger on the pulse of these things, did I miss your response ?
Sad. Very sad.
I am sure the RFID car tags and CCTV will help………..
millions down the drain. Yet again, our money was spent by people with their own interest and we got nothing, meanwhile they got everything they wanted.
just getting worst down here
Wasn’t there another robbery Thursday night at a store in Country Side, Savannah?
Armed robberies climbing and escalating with no one caught to date, speeding “sober” MLAs getting off the hook due to lack of “suspicion”, and the police driving up and down in pairs flashing lights in traffic to skip the line
Good job team,, Sigh
police farce too busy not doing the basics of their job and looking after the likes of jon-jon
If your son, boyfriend, or friend is coming home with extra cash, cigarettes or you know he is doing these crimes, then turn him in. The police can’t be everywhere and they don’t have esp to know when a crime is going to be committed. Stop blaming the police, the Jamaican population, the expats, and whomever else. It is one Cayman Islands and if you want crime to cease then you must start turning these punks in.
Interesting. More crimes that will go unsolved and the feeling of fear for many who have to travel alone after hours to get to and from work will just keep ramping up.
We on this island need to stop fooling ourselves that we cannot become jamaica or st kitts or Haiti. Those places didn’t always exist as they are now and they certainly didn’t become it overnight. Action needs to be taken now by the people, not the government. The government has no solution for this and the time for believing that security councils, made up of people who pay for high gates and security guards for themselves, will care about regular folk needs to end.
There is a failure on many aspects of our society. The culture is gone and the respect for authority and your fellow man is gone. Its clear that our belief in government was misplaced. They neither care or can resolve this issue. Its time for regular citizens to stand up and start taking ownership of their household. When you have your house and those you are responsible for in order, move onto your neighbors. Meet and form bonds with your neighbors and look out for one another. The neighborhood will benefit and then we can start to expanding past the neighborhood.
Its no longer sane to believe that we can elect one person for our district and somehow they will fix our issues. Anyone who continues to believe this is naive.
Build strong relationships with those around you and become stronger in order to defend yourselves and your family, because its clear all of this is escalating. It will spread and we need to be ready to tackle this now. If we don’t, the measures we will have to take wont be viewed favorably.
And yet we can’t carry pepper spray to keep safe and keep our possessions?!?! Stop the foolishness
Carry it anyways. Can make it from household ingredients with a high pressure spray bottle. Instructions widely available on the internet.
Or use Hornet spray
In my opinion, it all boils down to the government’s needs to be able to control us. They need to know that if they have to establish some type of martial law, they have the means to by us not having weapons that equalize the use of force.
The other side of this was meant to be that the government takes up the extra responsibility and provides some type of law and order for us. But that isn’t happening anymore.
When is it time for us to take matters into our own hands? Our safety is eroding away and asking people who make upwards of 150k a year to care about us isn’t working. They are no longer with the rest of us.
We need to do one of two things. Take away the government’s money and ministers pay until they do what is in the best interest of the people and start representing us or we take responsibility for our safety back into our own hands because we aren’t moving forward by asking our representatives nicely.
Is a bottle of pick-a-pepper in a spray bottle ok to carry ? Or come homemade scotch bonnet spray? Would appreciate if the COP will respond to this on CNS so that all women can try to protect themselves or should we all remain sitting ducks to these savage punks.
Get a personal alarm. Cheap and easy to use. Pepper spray can blow back at you. A personal alarm to an unsuspecting attacker will scare them enough so that you may get away.
Until someone uses it to settle a minor argument or to disable and sexually attack you. How about the police officer who gets sprayed whilst approaching a seemingly harmless citizen?
Weapons aren’t the answer, good parenting, personal morals, and integrity are the answer. But this is Cayman where accountability doesn’t exist.
Imported criminals!
Thanks Mac, and thanks Kenneth.
How do you know they are imported? Do you know who they are? If so, please turn them in so these robberies can stop before someone is physically harmed during them. We all know at some point , they will escalate.
Opportunistic criminals are relying upon unlikely police intervention, and their bet keeps winning. When “stabilising” high crime rates is the mission success calibration setting of the Chief of Police, we should really expect the RCIPS to continue popping the champagne to high ambient rates of violent street crime. Promotions for everyone.
No description of the vehicle for the first one?