{"id":33795,"date":"2013-04-03T08:27:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T12:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=33795"},"modified":"2013-04-03T08:27:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T12:27:41","slug":"nine-armed-robberies-over-easter-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/04\/nine-armed-robberies-over-easter-weekend","title":{"rendered":"Nine Armed Robberies Over Easter Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Police reported nine armed robberies over the weekend.<\/p>\n

According to police, there were four armed robberies on Saturday, three on Sunday and two up to press time yesterday.<\/p>\n

Six of them happened when the victims were either arriving at home or leaving home.<\/p>\n

The first incident happened at 1 a.m. on Saturday when a man was leaving his Elizabeth Estates home. Police said he was accosted by two armed men who stole his 2006 Honda Accord.<\/p>\n

The second happened around 1:30 a.m. when a woman was robbed of her white 2003 Honda Civic.<\/p>\n

Police said she was in the East Bay and Mackey Street area when she was approached by a man armed with a handgun who stole her car.<\/p>\n

The third incident happened at 4:10 p.m. when a man was robbed of his white Kia Sportage as he was arriving at his Lynden Pindling Estates home.<\/p>\n

The fourth incident happened around 11:23 p.m. when two armed men robbed a man of his cell phone and cash as he arrived at his Garden Hills home.<\/p>\n

The fifth incident happened on Sunday around 2:30 a.m. when a man with a handgun robbed a woman of cash and her cell phone as she arrived at her Hillside Estate home.<\/p>\n

The sixth incident happened at 8:30 p.m. when a man was robbed at an event at Montagu Beach. The seventh happened at 11:50 p.m. at Potter\u2019s Cay
\nDock when a husband and wife were at a stall.<\/p>\n

According to police, five armed men approached the couple and one of the men snatched the woman\u2019s jewelry off her neck.<\/p>\n

Police said the 37-year-old husband got into a struggle with the culprit who then shot him to the back and fled.<\/p>\n

The eighth incident happened yesterday around 12:15 a.m. when two armed men robbed a business on Solider Road.<\/p>\n

The last incident happened around 3 a.m. yesterday.<\/p>\n

Police said a 21-year-old man had just arrived at his Farrington Road home when two armed men approached him.<\/p>\n

The men robbed him of an undetermined amount of cash, his cell phone and jewelry, police said. The men then got into a struggle and the victim was shot. He is in stable condition in hospital.<\/p>\n

Assistant Commissioner of Police Anthony Ferguson said police have noticed a trend where groups of two or more men approach victims when they are either exiting their cars or approaching them late at night or in the early morning hours.<\/p>\n

He warned people to be vigilant, particularly when driving home at night.<\/p>\n

By Travis Cartwright-Carroll<\/span><\/em>
\nGuardian Staff Reporter<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Police reported nine separate armed robberies over the long Holiday weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[31,219],"class_list":["post-33795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-crime","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}