CARISA LEE

Re­porter

Just un­der one mile from the West End Po­lice Sta­tion, eight peo­ple were robbed of their mon­ey and valu­ables by ban­dits at the Diego Mar­tin Cen­tral Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre.

Both build­ings are lo­cat­ed along Wendy Fitzwilliam Boule­vard.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that three of the vic­tims were con­duct­ing sales, while the oth­ers were ei­ther pur­chas­ing or so­cial­iz­ing.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, around mid­night on Sat­ur­day, all the vic­tims were on the com­pound of the Diego Mar­tin Cen­tral Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre when a gold Nis­san Almera drove in.

Four armed ban­dits wear­ing masks and ban­danas ex­it­ed the ve­hi­cle and an­nounced a rob­bery. The dri­ver re­mained in­side the car.

The ban­dits robbed two em­ploy­ees of Wing It of cash and a ten-inch tablet.

They al­so took the car key of a Nis­san AD Wag­on from a 63-year-old woman.

The four rob­bers stole $1,000 and a pur­ple iPhone 11 val­ued at $1,700 from a 30-year-old man.

The own­er of Crusin Cui­sine and his fam­i­ly al­so were robbed. Items tak­en in­clud­ed six gold rings, a pair of gold ear­rings, a li­on head gold ring val­ued at $1,000, and a gold chain with a crys­tal stone val­ued at $500.

The ban­dits al­so took an A-22-cell­phone from a 15-year-old girl.

Af­ter tak­ing the items, the as­sailants re-en­tered the ve­hi­cle, drove out of the com­pound, turned east on­to Wendy Fitzwilliam Boule­vard, then south on­to St. Lu­cien Road, and es­caped.

The scene was pho­tographed and processed by of­fi­cers; how­ev­er, no us­able fin­ger­prints were found.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing.