Sev­er­al items, in­clud­ing the of­fi­cial po­lice badge and iden­ti­fi­ca­tion card were stolen from a po­lice of­fi­cer’s car out­side an Aranguez bar on Fri­day night.

Po­lice said the of­fi­cer parked her Maz­da van near the El So­cor­ro Ac­cess Road, near the Churchill-Roo­sevelt High­way at 8.50 pm and went to lime with friends at a near­by bar.

The of­fi­cer re­turned to her van around 10 pm and no­ticed the front pas­sen­ger side win­dow bro­ken.

On check­ing, she re­alised her hand­bag which con­tained her badge, iden­ti­fi­ca­tion card, tablet, Ama­zon Kin­dle and flash dri­ves was miss­ing.

Man killed, an­oth­er wound­ed in Cara­pichaima dri­ve-by

A dri­ve-by shoot­ing in Cara­pichaima on Fri­day end­ed in a 46-year-old man be­ing killed and the wound­ing of an­oth­er.

Po­lice said Shawn New­ton was speak­ing with his broth­er and an­oth­er man on a bench at Man­dela Dri­ve, off Or­ange Field Road, around 7.45 pm when a bronze van drove near them.

Two gun­men got out of the car and shot at the trio, hit­ting New­ton sev­er­al times, killing him.

New­ton’s 42-year-old broth­er was shot in his left arm. 

A taxi dri­ver who was drop­ping off a pas­sen­ger on Man­dela Dri­ve, at the time lat­er told po­lice that his car was struck sev­er­al times by stray bul­lets dur­ing the at­tack.

The gun­men got back in the van and drove off.

Of­fi­cers from the Freeport Po­lice Sta­tion were called.

The in­jured man was tak­en to hos­pi­tal where he re­mained up to yes­ter­day morn­ing.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors found ten 5.56 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion at the scene.

Re­gion III Homi­cide in­ves­ti­ga­tors are con­tin­u­ing en­quiries.

Car chase through Diego Mar­tin ends in ban­dit’s ar­rest

A chaot­ic car chase through Diego Mar­tin on Fri­day af­ter­noon end­ed with the ar­rest of a 26-year-old sus­pect.

Po­lice said of­fi­cers of the Four Roads Po­lice Sta­tion re­ceived a re­port of a stolen car on Fac­to­ry Road around 5 pm.

On reach­ing the area, the of­fi­cers saw a grey Kia Nero match­ing the de­scrip­tion of the stolen car, be­ing dri­ven by a man de­scribed as a “pri­or­i­ty of­fend­er.”

The of­fi­cers tried to get the at­ten­tion of the man, who drove off, lead­ing of­fi­cers on a chase.

Po­lice fol­lowed the car to Wendy Fitzwilliam Boule­vard, to St Lu­cien Road and then to the Ma­ju­ba Cross Road, Pe­tit Val­ley, where the ban­dit crashed in­to sev­er­al parked cars with­out stop­ping.

How­ev­er, the chase came to an end when af­ter he col­lid­ed with a white Mit­subishi ASX, caus­ing the car to flip over.

As the of­fi­cers ap­proached the crashed car, they re­port­ed­ly were threat­ened by the man and fired a shot at him, hit­ting him once in the leg.

The in­jured man was tak­en to the St James In­fir­mary.

Po­lice lat­er searched the car and found a black re­volver con­tain­ing a round of .38 am­mu­ni­tion and two false li­cence plates.

Las Lo­mas man stabs bur­glar dur­ing break-in

A Las Lo­mas man turned the ta­bles on a ban­dit who at­tacked him at his home on Fri­day night.

Po­lice said the 40-year-old man was with his fam­i­ly in the liv­ing room of his Su­chit Trace, Las Lo­mas No 1, home around 9 pm when they heard the sound of glass break­ing from the bed­room.

On check­ing, the man saw a ban­dit hold­ing a cut­lass and knife who threat­ened to kill the man and his fam­i­ly.

The man tried to grab the weapons from the ban­dit lead­ing to a strug­gle, dur­ing which he was beat­en and stabbed be­hind his head.

The scuf­fle moved to the kitchen area, where the vic­tim grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed the ban­dit sev­er­al times.

Las Lo­mas po­lice were called in along with the emer­gency re­spon­ders and took the in­jured ban­dit and home­own­er to the Mt Hope Hos­pi­tal where they are be­ing treat­ed.

The vic­tim was treat­ed for cuts to his right ear and bruis­es to the chest, while the ban­dit re­ceived a punc­tured right lung, cuts to his head and stab wounds to the low­er back and shoul­der.

Ari­ma man ab­duct­ed, beat­en af­ter row with girl­friend

North­ern Di­vi­sion po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing re­ports that a 26-year-old Ari­ma man was kid­napped and beat­en af­ter a heat­ed ar­gu­ment with his girl­friend on Fri­day night.

Po­lice said the man was at his girl­friend’s D’Abadie home around 10 pm when they got in­to an ar­gu­ment, dur­ing which the man got a cut­lass and chopped her on her right fin­ger.

The woman locked her­self in the apart­ment as the man walked around the home de­stroy­ing the win­dows be­fore leav­ing.

As he walked along the Pi­ar­co Old Road, the man was con­front­ed by gun­men who shoved him in the trunk of a black Nis­san B14 and drove off.

Passers-by saw the con­fronta­tion and called the po­lice who is­sued an All Points Bul­letin (APB) through the po­lice com­mand cen­tre.

The man was found around 3.45 am yes­ter­day at Ojar Dri­ve, Cal­liste Street, Mau­si­ca Road.

When ques­tioned by po­lice, the man re­port­ed that men threw glass bot­tles at him but could not re­mem­ber how he got to the lo­ca­tion where he was found.