Crime
Assistant police commissioner recruited from UK
(CNS): The Police Service Commission (PSC) has appointed a former officer from London’s Metropolitan Police Service to a leadership job in the RCIPS. Robert Atkin MBE is the new assistant commissioner of police (ACP), a rank that has not existed since about 2007. It is immediately below the position of deputy commissioner, currently held by […]
Police seek witnesses to undisclosed burglary
(CNS): The police are investigating a commercial burglary in the early hours of Monday morning and are seeking witnesses and information, although they have refused to say exactly where it took place. According to a press release, the break-in happened at an undisclosed business on the West Bay Road in George Town sometime before 8:00am, […]
Four guns, 2,800 bullets collected during amnesty
(CNS): Given how many illegal guns are known by the police to be on the streets of Cayman, Chief Superintendent Brad Ebanks said that the number of firearms handed in over the recent six-week amnesty was “considerably less than we hoped for”. But the police said the people who were brave enough to come forward have […]
Cop pepper sprays driver as traffic stop turns violent
(CNS): A police officer was assaulted and deployed his pepper spray in the early hours of Tuesday morning when a traffic stop turned violent. According to the RCIPS, shortly before 1:00am on Tuesday, 3 September, a police officer conducting a vehicle stop on Bodden Town Road asked a driver for his identification and vehicle documents.
Road rage driver charged with attempted murder
(CNS): Asheimo Relando McDonald (23) from Bodden Town has been charged with attempted murder and the possession of an unlicensed firearm in connection to a road rage incident in Savannah last week. McDonald, who appeared in court yesterday, was arrested on 28 August after the vehicle he was driving collided with another vehicle and he […]
Police issue warnings over latest online scams
(CNS): The RCIPS continues to receive multiple reports of scammers calling local banking customers claiming to be from a variety of organisations, including banks, credit card and money transfer companies, and most recently, the RCIPS. The Financial Crime Unit is seeing an escalation in reports of what appears to be a focused effort from foreign […]
Road rage suspect assaults officers on arrest
(CNS) The man the police were looking for after he fired a flare gun at another driver following a collision between their two vehicles in Savannah yesterday has handed himself in. Just before 5pm Wednesday, the 23-year-old man from Bodden Town attended the Cayman Islands Detention Centre. But when he was arrested on suspicion of […]
Local man fined $300 for dumping on private land
(CNS): A local man received a $300 fine last week after he appeared in court facing littering charges. The Department of Environmental Health (DEH) said during the first week of May, the man dumped an undisclosed load of waste at a property on Conch Point Road, West Bay, belonging to Shoreline Development Company without their […]
Men engage in road rage fight following crash
(CNS): Police have opened an investigation into a fight that occurred between two men in the wake of a crash that happened in the Savannah area of Bodden Town at around 10am on Wednesday. Police said that the collision was between a HiAce utility van and a BMW sedan near Cool Spring Close. Following the […]
Local gangsters show off 3D-printed guns on YouTube
(CNS): A group of local gangsters have been featured in a YouTube video showing off guns that they say had been made using a 3D printer. The video was made by “Mr Triper”, who hails from Eastern Europe and is known as an extreme traveller. He makes travel videos that show what he describes as […]
Woman’s bag snatched by masked men in West Bay
(CNS): Police have opened an investigation into a street robbery in West Bay early Saturday morning. A woman who was waiting at the intersection of Neon Close and Mount Pleasant Road at around 5:00am was approached by two men whose faces were covered with t-shirts. They grabbed and threatened her and then snatched her handbag, […]
