Crime
Webb’s sentence on hold as FIFA case on appeal
(CNS): Almost nine years after Jeffery Webb was arrested along with 13 other football, marketing and media executives in Zurich in the massive FIFA corruption case brought by the US Department of Justice, his sentencing has been postponed yet again. He was due to go before a judge to finalise his case last month, but […]
US male visitors charged over credit card fraud
(CNS) UPDATED: Police officers investigating credit card fraud have now charged three men from the United States with three counts each of obtaining property by deception inregards to several purchases totalling over CI$50,000. The men were arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of obtaining property by deception. The RCIPS said yesterday that the men, aged 32, […]
Traffic cops to lead Easter road safety campaign
(CNS): Police will clamp down on rogue road users over the Easter Holidays in a targeted safety campaign to reduce serious injuries and fatalities on Cayman’s roads. Between Friday, 22 March, and Friday, 5 April, there will be an increase in visible policing initiatives and traffic enforcement across the islands. The campaign will focus on […]
Killers ‘deeply remorseful’ as they await sentence
(CNS): Lawyers representing Justin Kyle Jackson (25) and Eric Brian Williams Soto (23) told the court their clients were “deeply remorseful” about the death of Harry Elliott (63), who was shot and killed by Jackson during an attempted robbery at an illegal numbers shop on School Road in April 2022. In November last year, Jackson […]
Four accused of sophisticated $500k+ bank burglary
(CNS): Almost eight years after burglars made off with over CI$500,000 from the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) in George Town in a sophisticated inside job, prosecutors opened their case against four people on Tuesday after a long and complex police inquiry involving “cutting edge investigatory techniques”. David Samuel Bodden Jr, who worked at the […]
Suspect flees after chopping man in Camana Bay
(CNS): The RCIPS has reported three violent incidents over the weekend. A man was chopped with a machete during a fight on Market Street in Camana Bay, George Town, around 7:40pm on Saturday night. The police were told that the men, who were known to each other, engaged in an altercation, during which one of […]
Victim attacked and mugged on George Town street
(CNS): A man was mugged by a group of three people in the early hours of Sunday morning in George Town. The man told police officers who responded to the report around 1:00am that he had been attacked by two men and a woman, who stole his wallet containing both Cayman and American dollars as […]
Expat walks free despite importing 3 unlicensed guns
(CNS): Prosecutors have dropped the case against Anton Parygin (45), a Canadian-Israeli-Russian citizen who arrived in the Cayman Islands in early 2022 with three unlicensed guns, despite being told by the police that he could not lawfully bring the weapons here until he had secured licences. In court on Friday, the crown officially stopped the […]
Seriously injured man taken to hospital by passing car
(CNS) Police have opened an investigation into a serious assault that happened on Linwood Street in the centre of George Town around 6:00am on Saturday. The RCIPS said that the victim “fled the location on foot and sought assistance from a passing vehicle on Shedden Road, who transported him to the hospital immediately”. The man, […]
Man charged with grooming and rape of juveniles
(CNS): A 24-year-old man from George Town, who police suspect is part of a local grooming ring, has been charged with 18 counts of grooming and indecent assault against three juveniles. The alleged offences include rape, sexual communication with a child, meeting a child following sexual communication and indecent images of a child. When he […]
CBC arrests 26 at ORIA with drugs and guns
(CNS): In the two-month period between 15 December and 15 February, Customs and Border Control arrested 26 people at the Owen Roberts International Airport entering or exiting the Cayman Islands carrying drugs or weapons, plus one person for smoking on a plane. Officials said the interceptions, which included ganja, ecstasy, ammunition and guns, were based […]
