Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a se­ries of crimes across South Trinidad, in­clud­ing an armed rob­bery at a New Grant bar­be­cue out­let, a vi­o­lent su­per­mar­ket raid in Bar­rack­pore and a stor­age room lar­ce­ny in Moru­ga.

The own­ers of a New Grant bar­be­cue food out­let were robbed by masked ban­dits dur­ing the ear­ly hours of Sun­day morn­ing.

The vic­tims, ages 35 and 38, told po­lice that around 1.15 am they were in the process of clos­ing up their busi­ness at Cham­pi­on Boys along Na­pari­ma Ma­yaro Road, New Grant, when they were ap­proached by two masked men armed with a firearm and cut­lass. The vic­tims were robbed of $5,000, two cell­phones and jew­ellery. Table­land po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.

In a sep­a­rate in­ci­dent, four ban­dits stormed a su­per­mar­ket in Bar­rack­pore on Sun­day night, beat­ing a se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer be­fore es­cap­ing with cash and oth­er valu­ables.

Po­lice said the 23-year-old se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer was on du­ty at Gourmet Palace Su­per­mar­ket on Rochard Dou­glas Road around 8.55 pm on Sun­day when the men, armed with a firearm and a cut­lass, en­tered the busi­ness. The ban­dits re­peat­ed­ly struck the of­fi­cer with the cut­lass and or­dered em­ploy­ees to lie on the ground while they ran­sacked the cashier’s area.

They stole sev­er­al car­tons of cig­a­rettes, two cash reg­is­ters con­tain­ing an undis­closed sum of mon­ey and a black-and-sil­ver safe con­tain­ing ap­prox­i­mate­ly $40,000.

The sus­pects es­caped in a grey Hon­da City. Bar­rack­pore po­lice are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

Mean­while, po­lice are al­so in­ves­ti­gat­ing the theft of thou­sands of dol­lars’ worth of ap­pli­ances and oth­er items from a stor­age fa­cil­i­ty in Moru­ga.

The 39-year-old own­er told po­lice she had se­cured her stor­age room, which is fit­ted with bur­glar-proof win­dows, a front steel door and a rear steel ex­it door, both with dead­bolts.

The fa­cil­i­ty con­tained a quan­ti­ty of valu­ables. When she re­turned around 2.30 pm on Fri­day, she saw the rear door open, and a bro­ken win­dow with sev­er­al items miss­ing, in­clud­ing a Blue­tooth box, a 600-foot rhi­no cord, a chrome sink, a blender, a deep fry­er, five king size sheet sets, a cui­sine knife set, a food steam­er, three gas tanks, a quan­ti­ty of cloth­ing and a quan­ti­ty of wares.

The to­tal val­ue of the items was not im­me­di­ate­ly dis­closed. En­quiries are con­tin­u­ing.