This was ascertain after speaking briefly with his father during a telephone conversation the man told police. On Sunday morning the victim and his son showed up at the station and the victim the 67-year-old man from the Dominican Republic reported that he was held against his will and robbed. He was tied by the suspects and left behind somewhere in the bushes of Belvedere, where he had spent the whole night, without food and water. In the morning hours he was able to free himself and contacted his family. Police are investigating this peculiar case of abduction.
Police is also investigating an armed robbery case which took place Friday morning at the Helena Minimarket on Fort Willem Road.
According to reports two men with their faces covered with panties and armed with a small black handgun entered the Mini Market and searched the place. They robbed the owner of the daily earning of the day, money that she had collected from her Avon clients and money she had put aside to travel on Sunday to the Dominican Republic was reported as stolen.
Police are investigating a case of robbery apparently on Sunday, at around 1:35 am, a man had climbed up to the second floor of a home located in the Pelican area and entered by removing the screen when he was discovered and tried to escape. Friends of the victim ran behind the suspect and caught up with the robber in the vicinity while trying to get away. Police were called to the scene and arrested the man. At the station the suspect a 43-year-old local told police that he resides in Dutch Quarter and is innocent and he was beaten by the persons who apprehended him.