Sascha Wil­son

A sec­ond at­tempt at rob­bing a Pe­nal su­per­mar­ket flopped bad­ly for a young ban­dit, who not on­ly got caught red-hand­ed but in­jured him­self. The 22-year-old sus­pect had robbed the same su­per­mar­ket at Pe­nal Rock Road last month.  

Un­masked and armed with a knife, he re­turned to the busi­ness­place at 8.42 pm on Fri­day, min­utes be­fore the busi­ness closed, and an­nounced a hold-up. 

The two cashiers who were present at the time be­came afraid and ran out of the su­per­mar­ket. They called their 49-year-old boss, who was at a tem­ple about 500 feet away. 

Short­ly af­ter, the pro­pri­etor ar­rived at the su­per­mar­ket and saw the per­pe­tra­tor steal­ing mon­ey from the cash reg­is­ter.

He raised an alarm and the sus­pect threw an ob­ject which broke the glass front door, then ran out of the su­per­mar­ket. 

As he made his es­cape while bran­dish­ing the knife, the sus­pect stum­bled and fell on the ground, hit­ting his head and face. The pro­pri­etor and an­oth­er per­son man­aged to sub­due him.

When the po­lice ar­rived, the sus­pect was still ly­ing on the ground, bleed­ing from an in­jury to the right side of his head. The po­lice re­trieved a black-han­dled knife with a ten-inch blade and a knap­sack con­tain­ing  $3,010. He was ar­rest­ed and tak­en to the Siparia Health Cen­tre for med­ical at­ten­tion.

The sus­pect, of Seemu­n­gal Trace, Pe­nal Rock Road, is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear in court this week. 

Cit­ing se­cu­ri­ty con­cerns, the pro­pri­etor re­quest­ed that his iden­ti­ty and the su­per­mar­ket’s name be omit­ted from this ar­ti­cle. 

Ag Cpl Khaleel is in­ves­ti­gat­ing.