PHILIPSBURG:--- On Monday March 10th, 2014 at approximately 11:00am, a police patrol was directed to Sol Gas Station on the Juancho Yrausquin Boulevard to investigate an attempted armed robbery. On the scene the patrol spoke to the victim who stated that he was attacked by a man with a knife who tried to rob him of his bag. After resisting quite heavily, the robber did not succeed in taking the bag and fled the scene on foot towards Green House. The patrol immediately started a search in the area and located the suspect hiding at an apartment building in the vicinity of Bobby's Marina. The male suspect with the initials P.D.M. (40) from Jamaica was arrested on the spot and taken to the Philipsburg Police Station where he remains in custody pending further investigation by the Special Robbery Unit.
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