Police
Vendor violence and drug sales continue at 7MB
(CNS) UPDATED: Police have now arrested a 24-year-old man from Bodden Town the third individual arrested for allegedly selling drugs at Seven Mile Beach this week. He was arrested by officers on foot patrol at the public beach at about 5pm Saturday after they observed him smoking ganja. The man also had a bag containing […]
Police attend 61 crashes in first days of safety campaign
(CNS): During the first five days of Operation Winter Guardian, which began Monday, the police attended 61 crashes and arrested nine drunk drivers. The annual holiday safety campaign has got off to a worrying start as the increasingly poor standard of driving across Cayman appears to get worse by the month. Drivers continue drinking before […]
Scammers create fake Cayman Crypto Bank website
(CNS): Fraudsters have created a fake crypto bank that they claim is based in the Cayman Islands in another effort to separate people from their hard-earned cash. The Financial Reporting Authority (FRA) became aware of the “Cayman Crypto Bank” through the website www.caymancryptobank.com that fraudulently claims: “The Banking of the Future. Based in Cayman Islands. Cayman […]
Child and two adults injured in three-car pile-up
(CNS): Just one day after the police launched their Christmas safety campaign, they were on the scene of yet another major collision on Grand Cayman’s roads. This one involved three vehicles that may have been caused by drivers racing each other. The crash happened on Bodden Town Road in the Midland Acres area at about […]
Suspect arrested over $300k payroll robbery
(CNS): A 30-year-old man from West Bay has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit robbery and other related offences in connection with the high-value robbery of what is understood to have been the cash payroll for a construction site on the West Bay Road last month.
Trio arrested over toddler’s death last to see her alive
(CNS): The inquiry into the death of Alissady Powell moved from an unexplained death to a murder investigation only very recently after the work of several forensic experts found that the child was dead before she entered the sea, police have said. The three suspects arrested Wednesday for murder were the last people with the […]
West Bay 4-way stop grocery shop robbed again
(CNS): The 24-hour convenience store located at the junction of West Church Street and Town Hall Road by the four-way stop in West Bay has been robbed again. The shop was held up by a man armed with a gun at about 5:20am on Thursday, but police have already arrested a suspect. A 34-year-old man […]
Man charged with raping woman in parked car
(CNS): Police have charged a 31-year-old man from George Town with rape. The man appeared in court today and was remanded in custody. The charges stem from a report of a sexual assault that took place around midnight on Tuesday in a parked car at Seven Mile Shops plaza on the West Bay Road, north […]
Road safety committee repeats appeal to drivers
(CNS): Although repeated calls by the National Road Safety Committee for better driving have apparently fallen on deaf ears, the NRSC has made another urgent appeal to the motoring public to take more care following a sharp increase in traffic collisions. Police recently revealed that crashes spiked to an average of 94 per week over […]
Three people arrested over 2022 death of toddler
(CNS): Two women, aged 32 and 26, and a 33-year-old man, all living in Bodden Town, have been arrested on suspicion of murdering two-year-old Alissady Powell, whose body was found on the ironshore in Cayman Brac two and half years ago. Police said the arrests were made early this morning, Wednesday, 11 December, and all […]
Cop acquitted of misconduct in ‘love triangle’ case
(CNS): Police Sergeant Keren Watson (44) wept in the dock with relief on Tuesday after a jury of three men and three women returned a not-guilty verdict, and Justice Cheryll Richards told her she was free to go. Watson was accused of misusing the police database by accessing unauthorised information about a married woman who […]
