MARIGOT— A grocery store in French Quarter is the latest victim of robbery reported the gendarmes in a press release. The grocery store was robbed some time on Tuesday morning at gunpoint. The armed robbers managed to take the all the cash that was in the cash register however; no one was hurt in the ordeal.
The gendarmes also managed to arrest a 36-year-old man earlier on Tuesday for stealing a car. According to the release, a woman reported that her car was stolen in Mont Vernon. While at the La Savanne Gendamerie a friend of the victim saw her car in French Cul de Sac area. Two gendarmes responded to the scene and arrested the man who was driving the stolen vehicle. He is to appear in court on December 17.
The gendarmes also arrested a suspect who they were looking for since September 16. This suspect is wanted for holding up a driver in St. James at gun point and forced him to drive across the border where he had intended to rob an ATM machine. Some alert Dutch side police officers had chased the suspect and his victim back to the French side. He was arrested on November 16th, he is scheduled to appear in court on December 10.
The gendarmes also detained four other persons who are suspected of being involved in extortion.