Tag: mugging
Screams fail to stop stocking-faced robber
(CNS): Despite the repeated screams from a woman who was robbed on her doorstep in Cumber Avenue, Bodden Town, Thursday night by a man wearing a stocking over his head, no one came to her assistance. Police said 911 calls were placed by people who heard her at around 9:30pm, but the attack lasted several […]
Robbers cut victim’s wallet from pants
(CNS): A victim of a robbery in George Town at the weekend was lucky not to be injured when he was attacked by the two men outside a central restaurant. The man stepped outside of Singh’s Roti Shop and Bar on Shedden Road at around 11:30pm Friday to make a phone call, when two men ran […]
Cops on hunt for shirtless muggers
(CNS) Updated with location details: Two bare-chested men robbed a woman of her handbag in Bodden Town on Friday evening and made off into the bushes on foot. Police said they received the report just before 7:00pm (21 April) that a 40-year-old woman from Bodden Town was getting out her car when two men came up behind […]
Women punched in George Town street robbery
(CNS): Police have charged a 30-year-old man from Bodden Town with robbery and drug-related offences after a street mugging in George Town, in which a woman was punched in the early hours of Saturday morning. The robbery happened on Harbour Drive near Elmslie Memorial Church at around 1:15am as two women were near their car in the church […]
Masked riders snatch woman’s purse
(CNS); Police are on the hunt for two tall, slim, fair-skinned, masked men who snatched a woman’s purse on Fort Street, near Centennial Park in George Town Thursday night. The woman reported the bag theft to police just after 9:30pm yesterday. She told officers she was standing at the park when two men wearing masks […]
Victim foils bag snatcher in West Bay
(CNS): Police are continuing their increased patrols in the West Bay area as the crime spike continues in the district. Yesterday morning a woman foiled an attempt by a potential robber to snatch her purse in the latest disturbing attack on the community. Police said the mugging happened at around 6:30am Thursday morning (12 January), when […]
Elderly man mugged for cash bag
(CNS): A robber made off with the takings from a local business owner in a daylight mugging at Grand Harbour on Wednesday. The robbery happened at around 11am on 28 December when the elderly man was walking along the west side of the shopping centre toward the skate park at the back of the complex. […]
Suspect to face trial over $7 machete robbery
(CNS): A local man accused of stealing seven dollars from a man during a street robbery in which he threatened his victim with a machete will face trial next April after pleading not guilty on Friday. Charged with one count of robbery, James Andy Myles (30), from George Town, was arrested just hours after taking […]
Cops nab machete wielding street robber
(CNS): The police were able to apprehend a machete-wielding street robbery suspect Thursday night on the way to the crime scene. Police said they rounded up the man on their way to the report of a mugging on Shedden Road near Main Street. A man had reported that the robber, whom he knew, had threatened […]
Cops round up one suspect in recent GT robberies
(CNS): Police have arrested a 28-year-old man from Bodden Town in connection with two George Town street muggings last Friday night in which guns were involved. The man, who is currently in police custody, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of robbery. The first mugging took place at around 7:30pm in Tropical Gardens, where a man […]
Victims mugged at gun point in GT robberies
(CNS): Police are on the hunt for what could be five armed street robbers after two separate muggings in the capital Friday night. A man was robbed on the street at 7:19pm in Tropical Gardens by two men, at least one of whom had a gun. Three hours later a woman was robbery by three […]
