{"id":34160,"date":"2013-04-10T09:36:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T13:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=34160"},"modified":"2013-04-10T09:36:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T13:36:22","slug":"armed-robberies-a-rising-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/04\/armed-robberies-a-rising-trend","title":{"rendered":"Armed Robberies A Rising Trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18088\" title=\"armed-robbery\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/armed-robbery.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/armed-robbery.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/armed-robbery-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Three hundred and twenty armed robberies have been reported this year compared to 314 for the same period last year, Minister of State for National Security Keith Bell confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The increase in armed robberies is cause for concern.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve armed robberies occurred between Saturday, March 30 and Monday, April 1. Six of which happened when the victims were either entering or exiting their homes.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Commissioner of Police Anthony Ferguson said police have noticed a trend where groups of men followed people home in the early morning hours and robbed them.<\/p>\n<p>Superintendent Paul Rolle told The Nassau Guardian on Sunday that most armed robberies do not result in murders, and he warned people to remain calm if they are being robbed.<\/p>\n<p>However, the most recent murder was the result of an armed robbery, said Rolle.<\/p>\n<p>Domingo Duncan, 37, was walking to his truck on Balliou Hill Road around 5:15 am on Saturday when three men robbed him, then shot and killed him.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>Source: The Nassau Guardian<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have 320 armed robberies this year compared to 314 for the same period last year, and police have noted a dangerous trend where groups of men are following people and robbing them at their homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[812,31,163,219],"class_list":["post-34160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-armed-robbery","tag-crime","tag-society","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34160","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}