A grandmother visiting The Bahamas is outraged after her eight-year-old grandson became an accessory to a break-in – apparently as part of a love spat between two police officers.
Otilda Lamont – who is on vacation from New York with her grandson Olrick Robinson – ﾠsent the boy on an errand from where she is staying in the Ridgeland Park area on Monday at around 7pm.
She was shocked and appalled to hear what he had to say on his return.
On his way back from buying a comb for his grandmother, the boy said his attention was caught by a woman calling to him from a verandah.
“Hey! I’m locked out of my house – can you help me get in?” the woman asked, according to Olrick, who also spoke to The Tribune yesterday.
The boy said he agreed, and she lifted him through a hole in the mesh of a window to open the door for her from the inside.
Having done what the woman asked of him; the boy said he “ran straight back home”.
Hearing what had occurred, the boy’s grandmother was stunned and went to investigate – “I wanted to find out what woman pushed my grandson through that window,” she said. When she arrived at the house that her grandson pointed out, a man came to the door.
According to Ms Lamont, he appeared unaware of what had taken place, and reluctant to talk. “I want you to come out and talk to me – I want to talk to the woman inside who put my child through this window,” Ms Lamont said she told the man – but he replied that “there’s no woman inside.” Ms Lamont said that after she informed him of what had occurred he checked the house, only to find that some items had been stolen.
Realising what had happened, he told her that the ~ woman he suspected is, in fact, a police officer – and so is he.
Ms Lamont said the male police officer told her that the woman had stolen his cellphone, among other things, and “broken up” his window.
Yesterday, Assistant Com missioner of Police Reginald ﾠFerguson, the officer in ﾠcharge of crime, said: “This was between a boyfriend and girlfriend,” when questioned about the incident, adding that the fact that the two officers were in a relationship “puts a different light on the matter”.
Speaking to The Tribune, Ms Lamont expressed shock and disbelief that such a thing could have occurred and was fearful that her grandson’s safety had been compromised.
“If the man had come back, she’d run and leave my grandson and he could’ve been shot! Y’all could shoot his head off inside your home!”
The visiting woman said – she took her grandson to the Grove Police Station, where both gave statements.
“They told me the woman was going to be locked up,” said Ms Lamont, referring to the officers who heard her case at the station.
However, when The Tribune inquired at the Grove station about the incident yesterday, the officer who answered the phone said they “don’t know about this matter”.
Source: The Tribune
