Tag: robbery

Man robbed of cash outside Rum Point condo

Man robbed of cash outside Rum Point condo

| 10/01/2024 | 26 Comments

(CNS): Police say that a man wearing a black or blue hoodie and brandishing a knife approached another man who was sitting outside a condo in North Side with some companions on Monday afternoon, threatened him and demanded money. The robbery occurred around 4:00pm on Water Cay Road in the Rum Point area. Having obtained […]

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Thieves make off with local restaurant tip jar

Thieves make off with local restaurant tip jar

| 04/01/2024 | 6 Comments

(CNS): Police are on the lookout for a couple who stole a tip jar from the Heritage Kitchen on Boggy Sand Road on Tuesday afternoon. Officers were called out to the local restaurant, which is also a tourist favourite, at about 2:30pm and were told that a man had taken the jar from the restaurant […]

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Crime continued over Christmas weekend

Crime continued over Christmas weekend

| 27/12/2023 | 32 Comments

(CNS): There was no let up on the violence and street crime over the holiday weekend as police opened investigations into fights, shootings and robberies. The weekend trouble began in the early morning hours of Friday, 23 December, with a shooting in George Town resulting in a man being taken to hospital with multiple gunshot […]

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Cashless bank robbery suspects walk free

Cashless bank robbery suspects walk free

| 18/12/2023 | 58 Comments

(CNS): Richard Andre Scott and Mark Alexander Beckett were acquitted on all charges of robbery, attempted robbery and possession of an imitation gun in connection with a stick-up at the cashless branch of Scotiabank in Grand Harbour last June. The crown had contended throughout its case that the circumstantial evidence against the men from CCTV […]

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Two charged with WB grocery shop robbery

Two charged with WB grocery shop robbery

| 22/11/2023

(CNS): A 23-year-old man and a 24-year-old woman from George Town have been charged with robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery following a robbery at the 24hr grocery store at the West Bay 4 Way Stop on Sunday night. The couple were arrested earlier this week after both of them were caught on CCTV and […]

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West Bay 24hr grocery store robbed again

West Bay 24hr grocery store robbed again

| 20/11/2023

(CNS): Three people have been arrested after yet another robbery at the 4 Way Stop convenience store, West Bay, this weekend. The shop was robbed at about 8:30pm on Sunday after a partially masked man entered the store, went behind the checkout counter and demanded money from the worker. A brief struggle ensued but the […]

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Robbery suspect arrested in stolen car

Robbery suspect arrested in stolen car

| 13/11/2023

(CNS): Police have arrested a 43-year-old man from George Town after he was found driving a Honda Fit that police suspect was used in a recent robbery. The car had been stolen in September and the licence plates it was displaying were not registered to that vehicle, a common practice by those using cars to […]

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Armed muggers rob man at 7MB car park

Armed muggers rob man at 7MB car park

| 07/11/2023 | 30 Comments

(CNS): Two men, one armed with a gun and the other a knife, mugged a man in the Seven Mile Public Beach car park on Sunday night, the police have now confirmed. The street robbery topped a weekend of violent crime in which a couple were mugged and badly beaten on a street in West […]

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Couple beaten by robbers outside West Bay house

Couple beaten by robbers outside West Bay house

| 04/11/2023 | 21 Comments

(CNS): A couple were treated in hospital last night for injuries sustained during an assault by two robbers as they left a house on Andresen Road in West Bay at around 11:00pm. The victims reported the incident to officers on patrol in the area, who gave them medical attention before an ambulance arrived and took […]

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Woman mugged outside George Town gas station

Woman mugged outside George Town gas station

| 01/11/2023 | 38 Comments

(CNS): A man wearing a dark-coloured hoodie and speaking with a Caymanian accent grabbed a bag from a woman’s hands on Tuesday night as she waited outside the Rubis Gas Station on Eastern Avenue in George Town. The mugging happened around 8:30pm while she was standing on the street at the junction of Godfrey Nixon […]

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Police arrest grocery store robbery suspect

Police arrest grocery store robbery suspect

| 26/10/2023

(CNS): Police have arrested a 43-year-old man from West Bay on suspicion of robbing a convenience store early Tuesday morning. The suspect was taken into custody following an operation Wednesday morning. Officers said the man, who was on court bail at the time of the incident, was also arrested on suspicion of breach of a […]

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