Ca­lyp­so icon and mem­ber of the mu­si­cal Black­man fam­i­ly Ab­bi Black­man nar­row­ly es­caped a rob­bery at­tempt late Tues­day night in Mar­aval.

Po­lice said around 10 pm, of­fi­cers Cpl Rahim, PC Con­liff, and WPC Pas­cual Med­i­na were on pa­trol near the KFC park­ing lot on Sad­dle Road when they no­ticed sus­pi­cious ac­tiv­i­ty. They saw Black­man, who was seat­ed in her sil­ver Kia Sportage, and two men near her ve­hi­cle.

Of­fi­cers ob­served a sil­ver Hyundai Elantra block­ing Black­man’s ve­hi­cle with a third man seat­ed in­side the Elantra. The of­fi­cers im­me­di­ate­ly ap­proached and re­alised the two men were ac­cost­ing Black­man and de­mand­ing her car keys. 

One of the sus­pects al­leged­ly grabbed Black­man, 60, by the neck and took her car keys be­fore flee­ing on foot as of­fi­cers raced to­wards the scene. De­spite of­fi­cers giv­ing chase, the two sus­pects man­aged to elude cap­ture, scal­ing a wire fence. How­ev­er, po­lice of­fi­cers ar­rest­ed the dri­ver of the Elantra. Fur­ther in­ves­ti­ga­tion re­vealed that the car’s li­cense plate was false.

Po­lice said the case re­mains un­der ac­tive in­ves­ti­ga­tion led by WPC Pas­cual Med­i­na.

Any­one with in­for­ma­tion is urged to con­tact the po­lice as they con­tin­ue to pur­sue leads in the at­tempt­ed rob­bery. - Rhon­dor Dowlat