Tag: armed robbery
Armed robbers strike at Bodden Town booze shop
(CNS): A liquor store in Bodden Town just east of Monument Road is the latest business to be robbed following a string of at least six stick-ups at small businesses over the last two weeks. The shop was robbed at around 9:30 on Friday evening when two men, who had their faces and heads covered, […]
Armed robbers hit loan business in Savannah
(CNS): Police are investigating what appears to be the fifth armed robbery in as many days after a loan business in Savannah was robbed on Friday night. At around 9pm the JN Money Transfer office on Homestead Crescent was robbed by two masked men, one armed with a gun and the other a knife, who […]
Daylight armed robbery takes place near airport
(CNS): Police are investigating the fourth armed robbery this week in George Town after two masked men, one armed with a gun, held up at a loan business along Roberts Drive, the road heading into the airport. The stick-up happened in broad daylight at 10:55 Thursday morning, when the culprits, dressed in construction-type clothing, entered […]
Shots fired during gas station armed robbery
(CNS): A gunman fired his weapon into the air as he entered the Esso gas station on Dorcy Drive shortly after 10pm Tuesday night before demanding cash from a customer. He was one of two men who had arrived at the scene on a motorbike and afterwards they both left on the bike. The robbery […]
Jewellery mugger strikes twice in George Town
(CNS): Two men were robbed of their jewellery at gunpoint in George Town early Tuesday morning in two separate incidents within about ten minutes of each other. The police believe that both the victims were mugged by the same culprit, described as a man with a slim build and brown complexion.
Food truck robbed by armed cyclist
(CNS): Police say an armed, masked cyclist held up the Burger Shack food truck on Crewe Road close to Country and Western bar on Monday night at around 8:30pm. The man approached the truck on a bicycle brandishing a firearm and demanded cash from the staff working on the truck. After taking an undisclosed sum, […]
Couple guilty of armed Tortuga robbery
(CNS): Richard Edward Nash (27) and Kasnique Cupid (37) were found guilty on Friday of a violent robbery at the Tortuga liquor store in Governor’s Square on the evening of 7 February 2020. They were convicted of a joint enterprise following a judge-alone trial before Justice Marva McDonald-Bishop in November last year, after a mistrial […]
Masked motorbike muggers rob restaurant patrons
(CNS): A 23-year-old man from West Bay was arrested just before Christmas suspected of being one of two masked, armed men who robbed customers at Welly’s Cool Spot on Sound Way, George Town, on the evening of 23 December. Police said the men approached a group of patrons on a motorcycle and one of the […]
Man injured during armed robbery at Archie’s Bar
(CNS): Two men were reportedly robbed at Archie’s Bar on Shedden Road by two armed, masked men at around 7:10pm Tuesday. Both the muggers and victims had left the scene by the time the police arrived but one of the men turned up at the hospital with injuries to his upper body that he received […]
Woman robbed at gun point on GT street
(CNS): Police are investigating a report of a street robbery in George Town that took place early Monday morning involving two masked men, one of whom was brandishing a firearm. The victim, who made the report on Monday evening, said she was at the junction of Shedden Road and Eastern Avenue at around 5.50am when […]
Suspect denies robbing victim of over CI$2,900
(CNS): Tyree Jaden Welcome (22), from George Town, will face trial early next year after denying robbing a small business off Eastern Avenue in George Town and stealing CI$2,868 and US$60 in cash. Prosecutors say that Welcome was one of two masked men who entered the premises brandishing a machete and demanded money, frightening the […]
