A 39-year-old man was ar­rest­ed min­utes af­ter he beat a store clerk and robbed a San­gre Grande busi­ness­place on Wednes­day af­ter­noon.

Po­lice said the ban­dit walked in­to the whole­sale and re­tail busi­ness on the East­ern Main Road, at around 3 pm and point­ed a cut­lass at her, de­mand­ing her cell phone and mon­ey from the cash reg­is­ter of the fruit stall.

The ban­dit stole $2000 from the cash reg­is­ter, which ac­count­ed for the days’ sales, be­fore de­mand­ing a key for the vault.

The clerk told the ban­dit that she did not have the key, but was beat­en.

The woman called for help as the ban­dit ran away.

Passers-by were called in as of­fi­cers from the San­gre Grande CID, the East­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force and the East­ern Di­vi­sion Gang In­tel­li­gence Unit vis­it­ed the scene and re­ceived in­for­ma­tion which led them to Blake Av­enue Ex­ten­sion, Damarie Hill, where they found the sus­pect and ar­rest­ed him with what they de­scribed as “items of ev­i­den­tial val­ue.”

The clerk was tak­en to a health fa­cil­i­ty where she was treat­ed.