Suspects of Ill-treatment Arrested.

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Philipsburg: ---On Saturday, police arrested two suspects in an ill-treatment case that had taken place on the A.Th Illidge Road. According to reports on Saturday afternoon two young men on seeing a man who they believed had stolen some items from their home a few days ago, abruptly stopped their car. One of the occupants jumped out the car with a machete and ran behind the man with the machete and injured the man. They then jumped back into the car and left the scene. The victim who was from Jamaica, D.W. (23) suffered cuts on his right hand and needed to be treated at the St Medical Center. At the police station in Philipsburg the two suspects were arrested for ill-treatment and for taking matters into their own hands.

Police also arrested on a Guyanese man who had ill-treated his former girlfriend. The suspect who had a child with his ex-girlfriend had slapped her and threatened to kill her if he was not allowed to see his daughter. He told police he was working two jobs to maintain his child. At the station it also turned out that the 34-year-old Guyanese suspect was not in possession of legal documents to reside on the island.