Philipsburg: --- The Special Armed Robbery Team of the Police Force on St. Maarten managed to apprehend at least four suspects who were allegedly were involved in armed robbery at the Yuppie Gas Station on Sucker Garden Road. The armed robbery took place on Wednesday evening reported Police Spokesman Johan Janchi Leonard.
Leonard said police managed to apprehend three of the suspects on Wednesday evening two of which are Jamaican nationals while the other one is from St. Vincent. He said the bandits had used a vehicle belonging to a gypsy driver who told police that the day before he was held up at gun point by the bandits who drove away with his car. The said car was used in the robbery committed at Yuppie Service Station.
The bandits held one of the service attendants at gun point while he was outside of The establishment. They managed to get away with an undisclosed amount of monies part of which was found during the arrests on Wednesday evening. Police also manage to recover the stolen vehicle which was left behind Rainbow Supermarket on Jumping Chola Cactus Drive in Sucker Garden.
On Thursday morning a detectives from the Atraco Team went to Middle Region to arrest the fourth suspect who also hails from Jamaica. On their way to the police station the vehicle in which the suspect and two detectives were inside including one of the Dutch Marechussses was in slipped on the wet road and moved over to the other side of the road before banging into a rock.
During this traffic accident several water pipes were broken. Due to the wetness of the road and probable speed the vehicle it swayed from one side to the other and ended up on Mont Repos road. Leonard said both the detective and the suspect who was in the vehicle at the time complained of minor injuries such as back and neck pain.
