A 19-year-old Aranguez man was ar­rest­ed fol­low­ing a shoot-out with po­lice af­ter they at­tempt­ed to de­tain him in re­la­tion to a rob­bery on Wednes­day night.

Mem­bers of the North East­ern Di­vi­sion In­tel­li­gence Unit (NEDIU), the North East­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force (NEDTF), and the CID Crime Pa­trol re­spond­ed to a re­port of armed rob­bery on the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route in the vicin­i­ty of the Aranguez Sa­van­nah around 8.15 pm on Sep­tem­ber 14.

The sus­pect re­port­ed­ly robbed sev­er­al per­sons who had been ex­er­cis­ing, of their cell phones.

As the of­fi­cers be­gan in­ves­ti­gat­ing, one of the vic­tims was able to in­form them that her phone had pinged at Nev­er­son Street, Aranguez.

Whilst pro­ceed­ing to the lo­ca­tion, mem­bers of the NEDIU ob­served two men cross­ing the PBR in the vicin­i­ty of Bridge Road Ex­ten­sion.

Ig­nor­ing com­mands to stop, the men re­port­ed­ly en­tered a drain along Nev­er­son Street.

As the of­fi­cers gave chase, one of the men point­ed a gun at them, prompt­ing them to re­turn fire.

How­ev­er, the men es­caped.

As ad­di­tion­al of­fi­cers can­vassed the Aranguez area lat­er in the night, they ob­served the 19-year-old sus­pect as he walked along Nev­er­son Street.

Fol­low­ing a search of his per­son - of­fi­cers found one of the stolen phones, whilst a search of an open yard at Nev­er­son Street, turned up three oth­er cell phones that had been re­port­ed stolen.