Tag: violent crime
Man stabbed at GT gas station
(CNS) UPDATED: Police have now arrested and charged a 21-year-old man from George Town with Wounding with Intent in connection with a violent assault at a gas station early Monday morning. A man was stabbed just before 5am at the Esso service station on Walkers Road, near the intersection of Boilers Road. He was approached […]
Police on the hunt for attacker
(CNS): One man is in hospital and another on the run after an altercation at a service station on Shamrock Road, near Selkirk Drive in Red Bay, early Saturday morning. Police said that around 3:30am on 18 July a man was injured by someone he did not know who struck him with an unknown object. […]
Family home becomes stage for assault
(CNS): A West Bay man who was the victim of a machete attack in the early hours of Saturday morning terrified a family whose home he tried to get into in an attempt to evade his attackers. The family woke to find the badly injured man trying to gain entry to their home. That was […]
Man beaten up at Vic’s Bar
(CNS): Police are investigating a violent assault at a George Town bar early Saturday morning in which several men beat up the victim. The brawl happened at Vic’s Bar, on Seymour Road, at around 12:50am on Saturday, 21 March. When the police arrived, they learned that an altercation had occurred between the victim and several […]
Two victims stabbed in separate crimes
(CNS): A Bodden Town man was stabbed during a street robbery around 6:00 Saturday morning, almost six hours after another man was stabbed during an assault at the Strand Plaza off the West Bay Road around 12:15am in two separate violent crimes. Two teenagers were arrested in the wake of the assault at the Strand, […]
Police look for 3 men after BT stabbing
(CNS): The police are on the lookout for three men, all believed to be in their late 20’s, with fair complexions and around 5’9″ tall, after a stabbing in the early hours of Sunday morning at a house in Bodden Town. One man was taken to hospital at about 1:30am on 2 February after the […]
Home invader gets ‘life’ in jail
(CNS): Elmer Wright (26) is now the second person in the Cayman Islands to be given an indeterminate ‘life’ sentence for a crime other than murder. Wright, who already has a serious criminal history, was told he would have to serve at least 18 years before he is eligible for a parole hearing, with no […]
Wright guilty in violent home invasion
(CNS): Elmer Wright (26) has been found guilty of five out of six charges against him relating to a horrifying, violent home invasion that took place in Prospect in June 2017. As a result of this serious conviction for robbery, possession of a gun and related crimes, in addition to a guilty verdict against him […]
Teen will spend Christmas in jail
(CNS): Jose Swaby Ebanks (18) was sent to prison just a week before Christmas to serve his first ever custodial sentence after a judge found that his violent attack on a 16-year-old boy was extremely serious and required immediate jail time. Justice Linda Dobbs handed Ebanks a twelve-month sentence but reduced it to nine months […]
Violent burglar jailed for 10 years
(CNS): Ryan Elijah Ebanks has been given another lengthy jail term for a serious and violent crime after the serial offender was convicted of a home invasion in West Bay earlier this year. He was jailed for ten years Wednesday for an aggravated burglary in Mona Lisa Way, where he broke into the home of […]
Man stabbed in bar brawl
(CNS): A man is in hospital suffering from serious but non-life-threatening injuries following yet another stabbing outside a bar during a brawl. Police have arrested two West Bay men, aged 41 and 42, who are currently in custody. The fight was said to have happened at about 9pm Tuesday evening in the parking lot of […]
