BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – ONE man is currently in custody assisting police with their investigations into yesterday’s (Jul. 2) failed bank robbery.
Assistant Commissioner of Police with responsibility for Operations, Joseph Richardson told SKNVibes that a man was taken into custody shortly after six men had held up the employees and customers of the Wellington Road Branch of the Royal Bank of Canada.
Richardson indicated that the man is being held on suspicion and noted that it was too early into the investigations to determine if he were among the men who attempted to rob the bank.
Yesterday, shortly before 9:00 a.m., five armed, masked men entered the bank in an attempt to rob the financial institution. According to eyewitness account, another “masked man was at a short distance from the bank…I guess he was the lookout man”.
The eyewitness claimed she was told by a male customer that four of them stood on the counter inside the bank and had demanded money from the employees. However, SKNVibes later learnt that because of the bank’s security system, they were unsuccessful in their quest.
Two traumatised female employees of the bank were taken to the JNF Hospital, and it was reported that the bandits had placed a gun to the head of one of them demanding money.
It was also leant that because of them being unable to get any money from the bank, the bandits robbed a customer of his wallet before fleeing the scene.
According to the eyewitness, the five men walked slowly out of the bank and were joined by the sixth man before they started running through the passageway between the bank and the building that houses the Caribbean Lottery Company. The passageway led them to an alley that leads into Pond’s Extension.
Investigations are ongoing.
