Two PoS robberies less than an hour apart on Sunday

SHANE SU­PERVILLE

Se­nior Re­porter

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing two sep­a­rate re­ports of rob­bery with vi­o­lence less than an hour apart in Port of Spain on Sun­day af­ter­noon.

In the first in­ci­dent, po­lice said a Tacarigua man was wait­ing for a taxi on the cor­ner of Wood­ford Street and Tra­garete Road, around 6:17 pm when he was con­front­ed by a man who snatched his side bag. The bag con­tained $225 in cash, house keys, charg­ers and a ra­dio.

The vic­tim strug­gled with the ban­dit who over­pow­ered him and ran away with the bag and items.

Min­utes lat­er, around 6:52 pm, po­lice said an Ari­ma man was wait­ing for a taxi at the cor­ner of Char­lotte Street and In­de­pen­dence Square when he felt some­one tug­ging at his gold chain from be­hind.

The man turned to con­front his at­tack­er and no­ticed two men try­ing to grab his chain.

Dur­ing the scuf­fle the chain fell to the ground. One of the men picked it up and ran away as the oth­er ban­dit fol­lowed.

Port of Spain po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing both rob­beries.