Chester Sam­bra­no

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing two rob­beries that hap­pened in the same gen­er­al area in San Juan less than an hour apart on Thurs­day morn­ing.

In the first in­ci­dent, two Cara­pichaima fish ven­dors were trav­el­ling in their Kia K2700 truck on Pon­ta Rosa Heights, Bushe Street, North, Pe­tit Bourg, at around 8.30 am with fish for sale when they were flagged down by a man at the side of the road who pre­tend­ed to be a cus­tomer.

As they stopped the truck, two men, one with a gun and the oth­er hold­ing a ham­mer, con­front­ed the ven­dors who or­dered them to hand over the cash.

The ban­dits stole the men's cell­phones and $3,750 cash, be­fore or­der­ing them to dri­ve out of the neigh­bour­hood. Min­utes lat­er, the dri­ver of a bread van was of­fload­ing goods to a mi­ni-mart on Up­per Bushe Street, when he was con­front­ed by two ban­dits, one of whom had a gun.

The ban­dits stole $500 cash be­fore run­ning away. Po­lice from the San Juan CID vis­it­ed both scenes and are seek­ing CCTV footage as part of their en­quiries.