Tag: violent crime
Man receives non-life-threatening gunshot to the head
(CNS): A man was taken to hospital late Tuesday night with non-life-threatening injuries after being shot in the head, the RCIPS has said. At around 11:00pm, police officers responded to a report that a man had been shot and was currently outside a business on Eastern Avenue, near School Road. When they arrived, they found […]
Suspect flees after chopping man in Camana Bay
(CNS): The RCIPS has reported three violent incidents over the weekend. A man was chopped with a machete during a fight on Market Street in Camana Bay, George Town, around 7:40pm on Saturday night. The police were told that the men, who were known to each other, engaged in an altercation, during which one of […]
Victim attacked and mugged on George Town street
(CNS): A man was mugged by a group of three people in the early hours of Sunday morning in George Town. The man told police officers who responded to the report around 1:00am that he had been attacked by two men and a woman, who stole his wallet containing both Cayman and American dollars as […]
Seriously injured man taken to hospital by passing car
(CNS) Police have opened an investigation into a serious assault that happened on Linwood Street in the centre of George Town around 6:00am on Saturday. The RCIPS said that the victim “fled the location on foot and sought assistance from a passing vehicle on Shedden Road, who transported him to the hospital immediately”. The man, […]
Man stabbed during fight outside local shop
(CNS): One man has been treated for stab wounds to his back and chest, another has been arrested and a third is on the run following a fight outside a convenience store in Prospect over the weekend. At around 6:15pm on Sunday, the police were called to McRuss Grocery Store on Party Lane, where three […]
Crime continued over Christmas weekend
(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 […]
Crown: CCTV and DNA tie men to bank robbery
(CNS): CCTV footage of Richard Andre Scott and Mark Alexander Beckett and DNA on the seats and handlebars of the bikes they used will leave the jury in no doubt that the pair are guilty of robbing customers at the Scotiabank branch in South Sound last June, the prosecution has said. As crown counsel Kenneth […]
Armed muggers rob man at 7MB car park
(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 […]
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 […]
Son gets 9½ years for brutal attack on mother
(CNS): In court on Friday, Jeffrey William Powery (39) received a sentence of nine and a half years for a brutal attack on his mother, Jolene Powery (57 at the time), at their West Bay home in December 2018. Powery had left his mother for dead after beating her into a coma when his undiagnosed […]
Serial violent offender jailed for five years
(CNS): A West Bay man with a string of over 100 previous convictions who violently assaulted his nephew with a machete in January has been jailed for five years. Eladio Chesley Brown (54) badly wounded his nephew after the younger man came to the house to break up a violent argument between Brown and his […]
