Al La Kebab truck robbed days after food hut hit
(CNS): The owners of Al La Kebab, the popular take-out food chain, have been the victims of two robberies within three days. Its food truck at the junction of Shamrock Road and Selkirk Drive in Red Bay was hit just after midnight on Wednesday morning after its hut in the Marquee Plaza was robbed on Sunday evening.
In today’s robbery, a tall, slim man armed with a machete approached the truck and demanded cash from staff before running away from the scene. He was wearing a mask covering his face and dark clothing.
Police noted similar characteristics between the two robberies. While the suspect could be the same in both, an RCIPS spokesperson said they were keeping an open mind.
The business has been the victim of at least a dozen robberies at the two locations over the last decade, and staff have previously been injured during these various stick-ups. Police confirmed that on this occasion, no injuries were reported as a result of either of the robberies, which are now under investigation.
Detectives are urging anyone with information to call the George Town Police Station at 949-4222. Anonymous tips can be provided to the RCIPS Confidential Tip Line at 949-7777, or the website. Tips can also be submitted anonymously via the Cayman Crime Stoppers website.
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How is it so easy to rob an enclosed food truck through a window and with a machete at that? Don’they keep the door to the truck locked so no one can get inside?
Maybe these robberies at this business are arranged robberies.
How tall is a person expected to stand for $6.00/hour?
Have we caught the named politicians and civil servants that openly admit to hiding $2.1 billion from the liabilities column of our Balance Sheet to forge compliance with FFR? Can the RCIPS please detail what steps they are taking to track them down and bring them to justice? Thanks.
Have we breathalyzed John John yet?
What it shows you is that the police can’t be everywhere all of the time and that they typically can only respond after an event has taken place. People need to be empowered to manage their own safety and security as the police are largely not able to prevent certain types of crimes.
They have a huge budget. And are now training 22 recruits. What value are we getting for money?
At least two or three times a year that food truck on Shamrock road gets hit, and its always by a robber who made off on foot. Its obviously someone from the surrounding neighborhood. I would suspect Selkirk Dr to be exact. If they wanted this repeat offender caught it should have been done by now.
Sherlock Holmes over here can’t fathom someone having a vehicle in another location.
Job description details for new hires is going to have to include “must have experience in armed robberies and be willing to risk it all”.
Time to go cashless. All shops now have debit card readers. Why can’t Ala kebab ? Then there would be no cash to steal.
“Time to go cashless.”
That doesn’t work after a Category 4 – 5 Ivan rolls through Bobo.
It probably does with the combination of Wireless networks and improved wired infrastructure.
In fairness to our terrible telecom providers. They have improved quite a few things.
Also, I’m pretty sure if and when we have another CAT 5 roll through here Food Trucks could go back to cash if they aren’t swept away.
The more reasonable argument against is that a lot of low-income workers here are still unbanked and don’t have debit cards. PLUS, the Gov’t robs us blind on taxes when we use a debit card.
Bruh, after a Cat 4-5 we trade in ice and cold beer.
Starlink maybe?
not on OffRegs watch
Our foreign-owned banks offer antiquated WAP3 thermal paper handhelds from 20 years ago, and nearly zero cell phone touchless compatibility. Visit the real world and use touchless Clover or Square point of sale readers that have been around there for over 5 years. Watch others tapping their iwatch to pay and go. Not to mention normal suites of banking services, protections, retirement savings products, fully collateralized lines of credit, and deposit interest! Cayman’s top-tier consumers have been left so far behind, and for their monetized assets and deposits, are treated like criminals.
We need extensive stop and search in Cayman. Anyone who looks suspicious or fits the demographic of most of the criminal activity should be stopped. And I don’t care how inconvenient it is, I don’t care if people get fed up being searched. If you aren’t a criminal you should welcome the efforts to put criminals in jail. It’s about time policing cracked down on all these people and got them off the streets, to keep the good people safe.
I miss the carefree life we had here 20 years ago when there was barely any crime and you felt safe to walk about freely. Now I don’t let my wife go out on her own and insist on dropping her off and picking her up. Its not safe for a woman to walk home these days.
“Anyone who looks suspicious or fits the demographic of most of the criminal activity should be stopped”
And what exactly would that stereotype be? Anyone who isn’t a white elderly woman?
I got pulled over by the FRU for nothing just because I drove an old honda. They thought when I immediately pulled down a side I was “evading” LOL no I was going to a friend’s house.
I guess good luck stopping every single Honda fit on island
and this is why decisions like this are not made based on random internet comments.
For the record stop and frisk has never been found to be affective, at its best case, where the studied area was completely oversaturated by law enforcement it was found that the stop a search procedure produced less than 2% actionable finds, e.g. finding things like guns, drugs etc. that could lead to arrests or prosecution
But you know what did help? having an actual community police presence. When you have police that actual work a beat/neighborhood, who get to know the people there and create a presence within the community crime drops from 15% to 20% because the people in that community feel more comfortable talking to the police when they actually know them and when they feel that support from law enforcement it creates stronger community bonds that work to reduce crime.
Who here actually knows the RCIP officer that operate in their neighborhood? how many RCIP officers actually talk to the people they are supposed to protect?
Crime is a social problem and it always has been, law enforcement needs to be part of the social fabric to reduce it, operating outside of the communities they protect will always lead to substandard results.
There is also the myriad of issues like corruption and incompetence with the RCIP that needs to be dealt with before communities will feel safe working with the RCIP, those men and women charged with upholding the law and protecting the citizenry MUST be held to a higher standard than the average person simply because of the power they yield. People are afraid to work with the RCIP and why wouldn’t they be? we have seen people come forward and be hurt or even killed, how many of us have have watched RCIP officers on patrol disregarding traffic laws? How many of us have seen those officers ignore clear violation taking place right Infront of them?
You want to reduce crime? stopping and frisking people doesn’t do that, it never has. We need top to bottom police reform and a change from a police force focused on “shows of force” and re-orient it to a community trust based institution.
Not true. Knife crime in the UK skyrocketed when they got rid of stop and search. It was removed supposedly because it was racist. But I’d rather have fewer people stabbed to death even if it means people’s feelings get hurt.
Doesn’t matter whether you like it or not, profiling works.
Perfectly said. How I wish those who had the influence to make a difference could read and understand your words. Many of us can do so, but lack the social iron to make a difference.
Why do all such establishments not have a very loud audible alarm that can be easily triggered when a robber approaches? A very loud continuous noise will usually make such persons run away. It will attract the attention they do not want. Bright LED lights around the exterior would also help.
Al La Kebab need to put in cameras at both locations.
i mean, what good does it do? you put a t shirt over your face and BOOM, jury wont convict.
Why even bother giving Al La Kebab recommendations? Obviously their business plan includes weekly robberies. The only conclusion that could be made, otherwise they would have taken material steps to protect their staff and interests. Best we move on from this story.
Their prices are robbery too
The robberies will continue until they reinstate the original spicy chili sauce.
#this
#makespicychiligreatagain
The RCIPS know who the trouble makers are. Wouldn’t it be a good time to implement a stop and frisk policy?
Gonna wait until after they appear on a YouTube channel and Marl Road makes sure the public knows.
“The Kebob Robber” strikes again! Must be the sauce.
Must be lack of CCTV security, added to a failing on the part of A la Kebab to put on place necessary protections against these repeated thefts.
Take a moment in either location and look around. Multiple cameras. Security guards at night. It doesn’t stop them.
Kebab.