A delivery driver who went to drop off goods for a customer at Jacob Hill in Wallerfield on Wednesday morning was kidnapped and later robbed by four men before they abandoned him at an unknown location.
The 53-year-old man of Brazil Village, San Raphael, reported arriving at the customer’s shop around 9.30 am in a white Nissan AD Wagon.
While he was in the shop, he was allegedly approached by an armed man who announced a robbery.
The victim was reportedly made to lie on the ground, following which he was bound and blindfolded, and then dragged out to his car where the suspect and three other men got in.
The victim said he was forced into the backseat with two of the suspects and driven to an unknown location in Wallerfield where they later met a man in a gray Nissan Tiida.
The suspects in the victim’s car later transferred the stolen goods from his car to the waiting vehicle, before they got in and drove off, leaving the bound man in the backseat.
After managing to free himself, the driver made checks and discovered his wallet containing his identification, bank and other cards missing, along with his house keys, his two cellphones; $3,800 in cash, a tool box; snacks and soft drinks; two cartons of Broadway cigarettes; and a quantity of Bmobile and Digicel phone cards worth $4,550.
The victim drove back to the customer’s shop where he met police officers, as the owner had already alerted lawmen as to what had happened. —Anna-Lisa Paul
