Tag: home invasion
Appeal court upholds life sentence for ‘appalling offences’
(CNS): Elmer Wright (29), who is serving a life sentence with an 18-year minimum tariff in a UK prison, has failed in his effort to have the sentence overturned. He was convicted in 2020 of robbery, possession of an unlicensed gun and various other charges relating to a terrifying home invasion in 2017. Wright was […]
Resident chases off armed burglar from Lower Valley home
(CNS): Police have opened an investigation into a home invasion at an address in Lower Valley, Bodden Town, around 8pm on Sunday evening. Police officers who responded to the call-out were told that a man had entered the home of the complainant, armed with what is believed to be a firearm, and demanded money. The […]
Men escape with cash after home invasion in EE
(CNS): Police are investigating a home invasion after burglars forced their way into a residence on Austin Conolly Drive in East End armed with a machete on Saturday night. Police have said the aggravated burglary was reported to 911 at about 9:20pm. Two men had brandished the machete, pushed into the residence and demanded cash […]
Lifer gets third chance on licensed release
(CNS): Philip Glennon Ebanks (59), who was serving a life sentence for a murder he committed when he was just 17 years old and convicted of almost eight years later, was released on licence Thursday for the third time. Ebanks was first paroled in 2013 after serving 24 years in jail, but after committing two […]
Burglar armed with machete kicks in door
(CNS): The RCIPS is investigating a home invasion in the early morning hours of Thursday at a residence in East End. Police said that a burglar, armed with a machete, broke into a house on Seaview Road at around 1:30am, wearing a dirty white marina and shorts. He kicked down an interior door, which hit […]
Man denies violent, threatening burglary
(CNS): Michael Anthony Mendez (33) from George Town has pleaded not guilty to two counts of aggravated burglary and one of threatening to kill in connection with a violent break-in last month at the home of a woman he knew. Appearing in Grand Court on Friday morning, Mendez denied breaking into the home in Abbey […]
Woman assaulted and robbed in home
(CNS): A George Town woman was assaulted and robbed in her home by a man she knew in the early morning hours of last Thursday, police have said. The 33-year-old man, who has since been charged and remanded in custody, broke into the woman’s house armed with a knife. He threatened and assaulted her before […]
Suspect safe thief charged but case still open
(CNS): A 21-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a home invasion that took place on Tuesday at a home on Anne Bonny Crescent in South Sound, in which two thieves made off with a safe after locking the homeowner in a room. The young man was rounded up later that same day and […]
Burglars make off with safe after home invasion
(CNS): Two masked men made off with a safe from a house in South Sound, following a home invasion Tuesday afternoon. The homeowner, who lives on Anne Bonny Crescent, interrupted the burglars as they were prying out the bolted-down home safe with a crowbar. The homeowner was forced into another room and locked in. The […]
Suspect home invader arrested and bailed
(CNS): A 27-year-old man from East End who was arrested on Monday in connection with a home invasion in North Side last week has been bailed, police have said. The man was picked up by police near his East End home and questioned in relation to a violent burglary on 30 September, in which one […]
Connor found guilty in home invasion case
(CNS): Shane Connor (44) from George Town has been convicted in connection with a home robbery, aggravated burglary and a number of other related crimes that took place more than four years ago. It took a jury of four women and two men four hours on Wednesday to decide that Connor was the third man, […]
