Tag: armed robbery
Brac robbery suspect arrested Christmas Eve
(CNS): A 40-year-old man currently residing on Cayman Brac was arrested on the morning of Christmas Eve (24 December) after a team of firearms officers conducted an operation on the Brac with the help of the police helicopter and local officers from the Sister Islands. Police said the man was arrested on suspicion of robbery […]
Third man on run as cops begin busting crime ‘gangs’
(CNS): Police are looking for a 20-year-old unnamed George Town man over firearm and drug offences in relation to a gun found in a car last week. The weapon was seized after armed officers conducted various searches in an effort to bust up the groups believed to be behind this year’s unprecedented crime spike. The […]
Armed robbery spike spreads to Cayman Brac
(CNS): In what may be the first armed robbery of a bar on Cayman Brac, a masked man, armed with a machete, entered Pat’s Kitchen and Bar on West End East Road shortly before midnight on Thursday night, 22 December. According to the RCIPS, the man took a quantity of cash from the register, along […]
Sandwich shop and grocery store robbed at gunpoint
(CNS): Subway at the Countryside Shopping Village in Savannah and the McRuss Grocery Store in George Town are the latest businesses to fall victim to robbery, which is said to have increased by more than 400% in the Cayman Islands this year. The Subway sandwich shop was robbed at around 9:15pm Tuesday by a lone […]
Three more robberies committed in one night
(CNS): As the current robbery spike continues to escalate, there were three more armed robberies on Thursday night in a period of just an hour, the first in Prospect, the second on Boilers Road and the third on Smith Road. The first victim was a woman who was robbed at gunpoint outside a residence where […]
Armed mugger jailed for over four years
(CNS): A George Town man who mugged two men in one night, taking valuable jewellery at gunpoint to pay off a drug dealer, was jailed Friday for four years and one month. Charles Leonard Walton III (25) robbed both of his victims in the early hours of 29 March on Eastern Avenue just after they […]
One robber charged, another strikes on 7MB
(CNS): Police are investigating another armed robbery at an undisclosed bar on West Bay Road, just south of Seven Mile Public Beach, at about 9:25pm Wednesday. A lone masked man entered through the rear door, brandished a firearm and demanded money before fleeing with a quantity of cash. Meanwhile, a 25-year-old West Bay man arrested […]
Robbery suspect arrested after gas station stick-up
(CNS): A 25-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of robbery after a gas-station stick-up Wednesday during which one of the masked men left behind what turned out to be an imitation gun. The robbery happened at the gas station on Hell Road in West Bay at about 8:45pm. Two masked men, one carrying what […]
Robbers strike three times in one night
(CNS): The spike in robberies on Grand Cayman continued Friday with three armed stick-ups in less than two hours by what appears to be the same culprits from the descriptions given by the RCIPS. Police were called out to the first mugging at around 9:30pm at the parking lot by Seven Mile Public Beach. A […]
Cops spook robbers into fleeing empty-handed
(CNS): Three men who attempted to hold up a restaurant in Prospect on Friday night were spooked by police patrolling the area and fled empty-handed. The police officers were stopped around 9:25pm by a member of the public who had been at the restaurant, who told them that two masked men had entered the location […]
Axe-wielding robbers strike at GT restaurant
(CNS): Police opened an investigation into the tenth robbery since the end of October after two men, one armed with an axe, struck a restaurant in George Town during the Pirates Fest activities on Friday night. The two masked men burst into the restaurant on North Church Street at around 10pm and tried to open […]
