Tag: armed robbery
Victim stabbed in one of two violent robbery attempts
(CNS): Police are investigating two separate violent attempted robberies that happened over the weekend. The first attack took place in the early hours of Saturday morning and resulted in the victim being stabbed in his leg and his arm. Police said that just before 1:00am on 4 November, officers were called to the Accident and Emergency room […]
Cops investigating two armed robberies
(CNS): The RCIPS has confirmed that officers are investigating two new cases of armed robbery after a doorstep heist by a lone gunman on Mangrove Avenue in Prospect on Tuesday night and a stick-up at a well-known waterfront restaurant early Wednesday morning. The second incident happened around 2:30 this morning, when four men, including three […]
Five robbed by armed men outside bar
(CNS): Five people who were sitting outside Salty’s bar in Grand Harbour, George Town, just after it closed early this morning were robbed by three men, two of whom were said to have been armed with handguns that may have been fired. The outdoor bar stick-up happened around 1:00am Thursday, police said, when three hooded, tall, dark-skinned […]
Armed man robs Prospect bar and steals car
(CNS) UPDATED TUESDAY: Police have now revealed more details about the daylight, lunchtime, stick-up at a Prospect bar Monday which happened at around 12:20pm. According to the latest report from the RCIPS the robber was fully masked and armed with a hand gun when he entered ‘Da Station Bar’ on Shamrock Road Monday and threatened […]
Duo suspects in both Red Bay and GT shootings
(CNS) UPDATED: Police suspect that the two men who robbed the jerk stand on Shamrock Road in Red Bay at gunpoint Saturday night also attacked a man near Linwood St, George Town, about an hour before that. Shots were fired at both incidents. In the first, a man received a blow to the head with a […]
MLAs’ former PA given 12 years for robbery
(CNS): Christine Rae Smith was given a 12 year sentence Tuesday for her part in the robbery of a nail salon in July 2015. She was one of three people convicted in the case, in which two masked men robbed five women at gunpoint of their cash, phones and jewellery. Smith, who was at the […]
BT man charged with grocery store stick-up
(CNS): The 25-year-old man who was arrested following an armed robbery at a grocery store in Bodden Town was expected in court Tuesday after police charged him over the weekend with robbery, possession of an imitation firearm, threats to kill and a reckless and negligent act. The man is accused of holding up the Lookout […]
Cops nab store robbery suspect who fled in owner’s car
(CNS) UPDATED: Police have confirmed that the suspect arrested yesterday following a stick-up at a grocery store in Bodden Town has also been arrested on suspicion of the robbery at Mr Arthur’s store in George Town on Tuesday morning. The 25-year-old was rounded up on Wednesday after he tried to flee in the store owner’s […]
GT hit by three armed robberies
(CNS): Two George Town gas stations and one grocery store were all robbed Tuesday morning in yet another crime spike to hit the capital. Esso stations, one in the industrial area and the other on Shamrock Road, were hit within half an hour of each other from around 4am by what appears to be the […]
Gunman sticks up liquor store
(CNS): Police are on the hunt for a masked armed robber who escaped with an undisclosed sum of cash early Thursday morning after robbing Reflections Food 4 Less on MacLendon Drive in George Town. The RCIPS said that a man with his face covered and armed with what appeared to be a handgun entered the […]
Walkers Road gas station robbed at gunpoint
(CNS): Two masked men armed with handguns robbed the Walker’s Road Rubis gas station in George Town early Friday morning. Police said that the robbers smashed their way into the gas station store just before 1:3oam. They took an undisclosed quantity of cash from the register before fleeing on foot along a pathway behind the station […]
