Tag: Peter Lansdown
Robbers and thieves push up 2023 crime rate by 3.9%
(CNS): Overall crime increased in 2023 by 3.9% when compared to the previous year, largely as a result of acquisitive crimes such as theft, burglary and robbery, the RCIPS confirmed Wednesday after releasing the crime and traffic statistics for last year. While serious violent crime fell slightly, gun crime remains a significant problem. In a […]
Crime increases by 3.5% as robberies soar in 2022
(CNS): The release of the annual crime statistics for 2022 shows that robberies soared to new highs last year, while crime in general grew by around 3.5% when compared to 2021, as the population rose again following the re-opening of the borders. But compared to 2019, the last year before the pandemic, crime was down […]
Police need evidence to put an end to robberies
(CNS): Despite acquiring and trawling through almost 2,000 hours of CCTV footage, seizing six cars, conducting numerous stop and searches, executing search warrants and having identified around a dozen suspects in connection with the current unprecedented spike in robberies, the police say they need the public’s help to secure the evidence required to lock up […]
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 […]
Police focused on gang of local robbery suspects
(CNS): Detectives working on the long list of armed robbery investigations have honed in on what Police Commissioner Derek Byrne has said is around ten local suspects in a loosely affiliated crime gang. The police believe that these men are behind most of the recent stick-ups across Grand Cayman over the last three months. Since […]
Cops need help to ID grocery store robber
(CNS): The RCIPS is making a public appeal to help them identify the robber caught on CCTV during an armed stick-up at the Reflections Food 4 Less shop at the Airport Centre on Maclendon Drive, George Town, in the early hours of Saturday morning, 6 August. The grocery store video shows the armed man, who […]
Suspect Jamaican killer arrested, 2nd man on the run
(CNS): Police are searching for a man who fled from them yesterday afternoon following an operation to track down a murder suspect from Jamaica. Rudolph Almando Shaw (30) was found by RCIPS officers in George Town and arrested, but another man who was with him at the time fled on foot and the search for […]
Jackson charged with gambling shop murder
(CNS): Justin Kyle Jackson (23) has finally been tracked down by police and charged with the murder of former prison officer Harry Elliott (63) at an illegal gambling den in George Town on Monday, 25 April. When he appeared in court Friday, Jackson was also charged with possession of an unlicensed firearm following last week’s […]
Arrest made in gambling shop murder
(CNS): A man was arrested Wednesday in connection with the murder of Harry Elliott (62) at a George Town illegal gambling shop on School Road Monday evening. The suspect, one of around six men that the police believe are at the core of a criminal gang behind the current spate of gun violence, was given […]
Key witness shot dead on Seven Mile Beach
(CNS): Caine Demetree Thomas (21), a key witness in two trials relating to a home invasion in 2017, was shot dead on Seven Mile Beach early this morning. Police believe he was killed by the same criminal gang behind the escalating gun violence, including a robbery gone wrong in which a man was murdered on […]
Fifth road victim of year dies in hospital
(CNS): Brendon Lee Gayle (25), who was involved in a serious collision on Mangrove Avenue last week, has died in hospital. Police said Gayle, who is from Jamaica, died on Tuesday, five days after the crash, which happened in the early hours of Thursday, 24 March, and is the fifth person this year to die […]
