Investigations are continuing into two robberies and a theft in Maraval and St Ann’s, in which quantities of cash, alcohol, firearms and other valuables were stolen on Wednesday.
Around 2.50 am, a 48-year-old businessman, of Saddle Road, Maraval, was preparing to leave for work when a dark-coloured SUV with blue flashing lights blocked his driveway. Four men from the vehicle, who were dressed in police tactical uniforms complete with bulletproof vests and armed with shotguns, approached him shouting, “Police.”
They ordered him back into his house. His 46-year-old wife and six-year-old daughter were inside. The bandits robbed the family of a quantity of jewellery worth $60,000, a firearm and 20 rounds of silver hollow point 9mm ammunition. They also took $15,000 from a closet and $1,000 which was hidden in a jacket pocket, then hog-tied the couple before they fled the scene.
The couple managed to untie themselves and raised an alarm.
In the second incident around 10.19 am at Myrtsville, Maraval, a 29-year-old machine operator was confronted by three bandits who bound him with duct tape and ransacked his house.
They stole US$8,000 from a bedroom drawer along with a cell phone valued at $3,000 and the keys to the victim’s white Nissan Tiida. The car was found abandoned a short distance away with the keys in the ignition.
In another incident between 11 am and noon, an elderly woman, of St Ann’s Avenue, St Ann’s, returned home, placed her handbag containing $3,400 in cash and other personal items on a chair in the kitchen and went into another room.
When she returned a short while later, the woman noticed the bag missing, along with a kitchen knife, a bottle of beer and a bottle of wine.
—Anna-Lisa Paul
