Tag: armed robbery
Grocery store armed robbers jailed for 7+ years
(CNS): Randon Odell Davis (26) and Lincoln Donovan Sibron (22), both Jamaican nationals, were sent to jail on Friday for more than seven years after being convicted in June last year of armed robbery. The pair pleaded guilty to two counts of robbery and the possession of an imitation gun regarding a stick-up in February […]
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.
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 […]
Robber armed with machete makes off with cash
(CNS): Police have opened an armed robbery investigation after a machete-wielding robber held up the McRuss convenience store in George Town in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Just after 1:15am on 3 December, police officers were dispatched to Eastern Avenue, where witnesses reported a man wearing dark-coloured clothing entered the store carrying the machete […]
Hotel construction site $300k payroll robbed at gunpoint
(CNS): Dozens of workers employed at the Grand Hyatt construction site in George Town protested on Tuesday because the contractor was unable to pay them after robbers allegedly stole $300,000 in an armed heist of the payroll on Monday. However, the construction workers, many of whom are permit holders, were complaining about problems getting paid […]
Cash taken in armed, daylight robbery
(CNS): A man was robbed on Friday afternoon of an undisclosed quantity of cash, described as “large” by the RCIPS, by two men, one armed with a gun and the other a machete. The police said that around 3:45pm, the victim was walking to his car on Jasmine Lane in the Spotts area of George […]
Robber gets 39 months for Christmas carjacking
(CNS): Gerardo George Connolly (32) has been sentenced to three years and three months in jail for robbery in relation to a car-jacking in a supermarket car-park on Christmas Day evening where he had stabbed his victim with a screwdriver. Connolly, who was convicted earlier this year, has a long rap sheet dating back to […]
WB grocery shop robbed by masked men
(CNS): The West Bay grocery store located at the junction of West Church Street and Town Hall Road by the district’s four-way stop was robbed early yesterday morning by two masked men armed with a machete. The men entered the store, demanded cash, and fled the location with an undisclosed sum of money. The suspects […]
Masked men rob WB grocery shop at knifepoint
(CNS): Police are on the lookout for two tall, slim men who robbed the McRuss grocery store on Mount Pleasant Road in West Bay shortly before 4:00am Saturday. It was reported that two masked men entered the shop armed with bladed weapons and demanded money from the staff. After taking an undisclosed quantity of cash, […]
Machete-wielding robber takes cash from NS shop
(CNS): Police are on the lookout for a man who robbed a North Side business last week and made off on foot with an undisclosed sum of money. At about 9:40pm on Friday, 20 September, the robber burst into the store on North Side Road, just west of the Frank Sound Road intersection wielding a […]
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 […]
