BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – BANDITS focused their aim at a church bus during the early-morning hours of today (Oct. 15) and having broken into it, stole a couple of items therefrom.
The bus – which is the property of Word of Life New Testament Church of God – was parked in the yard of Bishop Matthew Hepburn, in Molyneaux, when it was vandalized.
An individual who lives in the home of the yard in which the bus was parked recalled hearing noise in the yard sometime after 2:00 a.m.
“It happened about 2:00 a.m. I heard some noise on the veranda like chairs moving. I thought it was the neighbour’s dog or cat because they come over often, they are accustomed to coming into our yard. So I moved the curtains and didn’t see anything. I guess by that time the person had already gone around the yard.”
“A few minutes after, I heard the alarm for the bus go off and I looked out again and I didn’t see anything.”
SKNVibes understands that it was not until the family had awoken sometime after dawn had broken that they realsied the bus was broken into.
“When we came out in the morning, that is when we realized someone broke into the bus. They bypassed a jeep that was also parked in the yard and went for the bus.”
SKNVibes understands that the thief(ieves) gained access to the bus by breaking the window of the side door. It is also understood that a child’s school bag was left on one of the seats in the bus which the thief(ieves) appeared to have rummaged through before removing another bag and a tablet therefrom.
The Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force was called to the scene and an initial investigation was made.
Only one week ago in the same community, the Fraites and Sons Bakery was robbed, an incident which left workers there traumatized. They perpetrators made off with an undisclosed sum of money.
Investigations are ongoing.
