A po­lice sergeant and his fam­i­ly were robbed at gun­point at a beach house in Man­zanil­la on Thurs­day night.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said around 8.25 pm, Sgt Fa­reed Mo­hammed, 53, was at a beach house lo­cat­ed at East­ern Main Road, Man­zanil­la, with four fe­male rel­a­tives—all of Princes Town—as well as the own­er of the prop­er­ty, Sun­jy Lin­go, when they were robbed.

Po­lice said four men dressed in dark cloth­ing—two of them masked—en­tered the house through an open rear door.

One of the sus­pects point­ed a gun at Sgt Mo­hammed and an­nounced a rob­bery.

Mo­hammed was re­lieved of his li­censed Glock 19 pis­tol with one mag­a­zine and 13 rounds of 9mm am­mu­ni­tion, val­ued at $6,000, along with his wal­let. The wal­let con­tained his ID card, dri­ver’s per­mit, Re­pub­lic Bank card, $800 in cash, and a pel­let gun per­mit.

Two masked sus­pects then en­tered the liv­ing room, point­ed a firearm at one of his rel­a­tives, and robbed her of a Sam­sung A21S cell­phone val­ued at $800.

The ban­dits rum­maged through the liv­ing room and took a wal­let con­tain­ing ID cards, a dri­ver’s per­mit, two deb­it cards, $120 in cash, and a med­ical ID be­long­ing to an­oth­er of Mo­hammed’s rel­a­tives. They al­so took an Om­mi Di­gi A11 blue cell­phone val­ued at $1,200 be­long­ing to a third fe­male vic­tim, a Sam­sung A13 cell­phone val­ued at $1,200 and a Sam­sung A2 Core cell­phone val­ued at $500 be­long­ing to Lin­go.

Sgt Mo­hammed told po­lice two oth­er masked sus­pects re­mained out­side on the beach­front dur­ing the rob­bery.

All the sus­pects es­caped on foot via the rear door, head­ing north along the beach, lead­ing po­lice to be­lieve the men may have been res­i­dents of the area.

Of­fi­cers from the Man­zanil­la Po­lice Post, East­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force, Ma­yaro CID, and Ma­yaro ERP re­spond­ed and searched the area but no ar­rests were made. W/Cpl Clarke-Hospedales is con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

— RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA