Tag: armed robbery
Woman robbed by masked armed men
(CNS): A woman was robbed of an undisclosed quantity of cash after parking at an address on Palm Dale Avenue in George Town on Friday night. Police did not confirm if the house was the victim’s own home, but after she arrived at the location a small car pulled in behind her. Two masked men […]
Cops seek witnesses to armed mugging in GT
(CNS): Police are urging anyone with information about a street robbery on Smith Road, George Town, last week to come forward in yet another crime involving firearms. The mugging happened just west of Huldah Avenue at around 2:50am on Thursday, 8 July, when a man who was standing on the roadside just across from Tropical […]
‘Numbers’ man robbed in George Town
(CNS): A man suspected to be running a numbers game was robbed in a barber’s shop off Eastern Avenue Wednesday night by armed men, CNS has learned. At least one shot was fired during the incident, as three men burst into the shop, which is located by the junction of School Road. According to police, […]
Crown: Ex liquor store worker was getaway driver
(CNS): Crown counsel Garcia Kelly told a jury on Thursday that Kasnique Cupid acted as the getaway driver in a conspiracy with two other men to rob her former employer, Tortuga Liquors, in February 2020. Richard Edward Nash, her co-accused in the robbery of the Governor’s Square liquor store, and another unidentified man fled with […]
Masked gunman robs 24hr GT store
(CNS): Police are on the hunt for an armed man who held up a local convenience store early Thursday morning. He is described as about 6′ tall, with a slim build. At the time of the crime he was wearing a mask over his face, a long sleeved shirt, black pants, black shoes and gloves. […]
SUV seized after jewellery shop robbery
(CNS): Police have seized an SUV that they suspect was used in the jewellery store robbery along the George Town Harbour front on Saturday morning. No one has been arrested yet in connected with the armed hold-up and police are still looking for a man spotted in the area of Courts Road at about 10:30am […]
Waterfront jewellery store robbed
(CNS): A lone robber armed with a knife made off with an undisclosed amount of jewellery from Rocky’s Diamond Gallery on Harbour Drive on the George Town waterfront on Saturday morning. Police said they received the report of the stick-up at around 10:30am yesterday after a man entered the jewelry store brandishing a knife and […]
Duo charged a year after robbery
(CNS): A 36-year-old woman from George Town and a 25-year-old man from East End have been charged with robbery more than a year after a liquor store stick-up and are expected in court Tuesday. The woman is facing one count of robbery while her alleged partner in crime is facing robbery and assault ABH charges. […]
Restaurant robbers flee on blue scooter
(CNS): Two men, one of whom was armed with a machete, robbed China Village, a restaurant in Plaza Venezia on North Sound Road in George Town, Wednesday night and fled with stolen cash on a blue scooter. The stick-up happened at around 9pm, the police said, when the robbers, both dressed in dark clothes and […]
Woman robbed by gunmen in West Bay
(CNS): A woman, who is understood to be pregnant, was robbed by two men, one of them armed with a gun, on Town Hall Road in West Bay Tuesday night. The incident happened around 10pm but police did not confirm the incident or release the descriptions until late Wednesday afternoon, despite media requests. The two […]
Man mugged by machete-wielding duo
(CNS): Police are on the hunt for two men who mugged a victim on Sunday, with their faces covered and armed with a machete, in another daylight robbery in George Town. The two suspects approached a man on Eastern Avenue near Watlers Drive at around 3pm yesterday and demanded cash, as one of them brandished […]
