Diego Martin man charged with assault with intent to rob

A 21-year-old Diego Mar­tin man has been charged with as­sault with in­tent to rob fol­low­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to an in­ci­dent in­volv­ing a Pe­tit Val­ley woman last month.

Po­lice said the woman re­port­ed the in­ci­dent on Fri­day, Sep­tem­ber 25, af­ter she was al­leged­ly as­sault­ed along Palm Av­enue East.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions were con­duct­ed by of­fi­cers of the West End Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment, with as­sis­tance from the Care­nage, Mar­aval and Four Roads Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ments.

Dur­ing a co-or­di­nat­ed ex­er­cise with the West­ern Di­vi­sion­al Task Force, of­fi­cers ap­pre­hend­ed the sus­pect, iden­ti­fied as Eli­jah Lu­cas, al­so known as “Li Li”.

Lu­cas was for­mal­ly charged on Mon­day, Oc­to­ber 26, by PC Rogers.

He is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a Mas­ter of the High Court to­day, Tues­day, Oc­to­ber 27.

The in­ves­ti­ga­tion was sanc­tioned by Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Williams and spear­head­ed by Act­ing As­sis­tant Su­per­in­ten­dent Grant.

It was co-or­di­nat­ed by Act­ing In­spec­tor Per­ry, Act­ing Sergeant Hug­gins and Act­ing Sergeant Gar­cia, and su­per­vised by Act­ing Cor­po­ral Mur­ray and Woman Act­ing Cor­po­ral Top­pin.

Oth­er of­fi­cers in­volved in the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­clud­ed PCs Bel­mar, Mor­ris, Lewis, Ed­wards, Williams, Fulchan, Wick­ham and Ma­coon.