RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

Se­nior Mul­ti­me­dia Re­porter

rad­hi­ca­s­ookraj@guardian.co.tt

An armed rob­ber wear­ing a dark-coloured hood­ie ac­cost­ed a bar­ber as he sat out­side a restau­rant in San Fer­nan­do on Wednes­day night.

All Glen­rick Flan­ders had in his pos­ses­sion at the time was the mod­est sum of $170 and his cell­phone val­ued at $600.

He told po­lice that around 7 pm, he parked his white Nis­san Ti­i­da along Prince Charles Street, San Fer­nan­do near Ather­ly's Bar and re­mained sit­ting in the dri­ver's seat.

Sud­den­ly, the hood­ed crim­i­nal dressed in all black shoved a gun through the win­dow and or­dered Flan­ders out. The rob­ber de­mand­ed the keys to the ve­hi­cle. He then forced Flan­ders to lie face down on the road be­fore rum­mag­ing through his pock­ets and steal­ing his valu­ables.

Be­fore any­one could stop him, the thief swift­ly jumped in Flan­ders' car and drove off, head­ing east­ward.

For­tu­nate­ly, Flan­ders had in­stalled a GPS track­ing sys­tem in his ve­hi­cle, al­low­ing him to re­mote­ly dis­able it. He alert­ed the po­lice who re­cov­ered the car in the vicin­i­ty of Ma­hogany Av­enue Pleas­antville. It was tak­en to the San Fer­nan­do Po­lice Sta­tion.

A par­ty of of­fi­cers led by PC Ali in­ter­viewed peo­ple and re­ceived in­for­ma­tion. Al­though the search is on­go­ing, law en­force­ment of­fi­cials re­main op­ti­mistic about bring­ing the per­pe­tra­tor to jus­tice.

Po­lice are now ap­peal­ing to any­one with rel­e­vant in­for­ma­tion re­gard­ing the rob­bery or the iden­ti­ty of the sus­pect to come for­ward and as­sist in the ap­pre­hen­sion of the in­di­vid­ual re­spon­si­ble.