BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – TWO young men were today (May 6) charged for robbing two women in Conaree on the night of Tuesday, April 26 2010.
According to Police Press and Public Relations Officer, Inspector Vaughan Henderson, 24-year-old Leon ‘Solo’ Jederon of Conaree Village and Jahmari ‘Mari’ Lake of Shadwell were charged on two counts of robbery.
Henderson said, “The two men were previously arrested on suspicion of burglary and robbery which were committed at Atlantic View, Conaree on April 26, 2011 but police at the Criminal Investigation Department formally arrested and charged them today.”
Sometime after 9:00 p.m. on Apr. 26, while a woman was conversing with a female friend on the verandah of her home at Atlantic View, Conaree, two masked gunmen accosted them and demanded money.
This publication learnt that the unscrupulous gunmen forced the scared women into the house, took them into one of the bedrooms and tied their hands behind their backs.
They then proceeded to rummage through some drawers in the bedroom in search of money and other valuables but were unsuccessful.
Consequently, they took the visiting friend back to the verandah where she had left her handbag and removed an undisclosed amount of cash from it. They also robbed her of some pieces of jewellery she was wearing as well as her cellular phone.
The homeowner was sexually assaulted and the criminals also relieved her of her cellular phone.
Seemingly not satisfied with their ill-gotten loot, the two scum of the earth escaped with one of the women’s vehicle, which the police later found abandoned on the West Basseterre By-pass Road in Buckley’s.
Less than 12 hours after the Conaree incident, police arrested and charged Jederon for possessing a firearm and a quantity of ammunition.
According to the Police PRO, at about 7:45 a.m. on April 27, members of the Special Services Unit were on a routine patrol when they stopped and search a vehicle on the FT Williams Highway in the vicinity of Taylors Village.
“While on patrol, the officers stopped and searched motor pickup truck P3773, owned and driven by Bryan ‘DJ Benjie’ Farrell of Shadwell Estate. Farrell and several occupants of the vehicle were informed that the search was on suspicion of arms, ammunition and controlled drugs.
“One of the occupants in the goods carriage of the pickup truck threw an object in some nearby bushes on the approach of the police. As a result, officers arrested the occupants of the vehicle on suspicion and searched the area where the object was thrown and found a 357 Magnum revolver with six matching rounds of ammunition wrapped in a black ski mask,” Henderson said.
The PRO said all occupants of the vehicle were arrested on suspicion and taken into police custody.
He added that the firearm was processed and taken police custody for further analysis, and Jederon was later charged “without a warrant for possession of firearm and ammunition”.
