A po­lice of­fi­cer has been placed on sev­en days’ in­jury leave af­ter he was struck by a stone thrown by a men­tal­ly ill man in Cou­va on Wednes­day night.

Po­lice said the of­fi­cer re­spond­ed to a re­port of a dis­tur­bance at Car­oli­na Vil­lage and was asked to as­sist am­bu­lance work­ers at 11 pm.

When he ar­rived, he was told the man had been throw­ing stones. The man, an out­pa­tient of St Ann’s Psy­chi­atric Hos­pi­tal, had not tak­en his med­ica­tion and was act­ing vi­o­lent­ly.

One of the stones struck the of­fi­cer on the back of his head. He re­ceived three stitch­es at the Cou­va Health Fa­cil­i­ty.

Of­fi­cers, along with the man’s broth­er, sub­dued him and se­cured him in an am­bu­lance, which took him to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

El­der­ly woman, 76, beat­en and robbed of $12

A 76-year-old El So­cor­ro woman was beat­en and robbed by ban­dits who stormed her home on Thurs­day morn­ing.

Po­lice said the woman was prepar­ing lunch at her Ward Lane home around 11 am when two men walked in­side.

One of the men picked up a kitchen knife from the counter and point­ed it at the el­der­ly woman, while the oth­er held her by the neck.

They tied her hands, struck her about the face and body, and ran­sacked the house be­fore cut­ting the ca­bles to her DVR sys­tem and flee­ing with $12 in cash, a pair of ear­rings, a gold bracelet, and a chain.

Ban­dits lure vic­tims ad­ver­tis­ing Ti­i­da

for sale

Two men from Mal­oney and Pi­ar­co were robbed on Thurs­day af­ter­noon by ban­dits who ad­ver­tised a Nis­san Ti­i­da for sale in Barataria.

Po­lice said the men, aged 32 and 44, re­spond­ed to a Face­book Mar­ket­place ad­ver­tise­ment and were led to Ninth Av­enue to meet some­one claim­ing to have the ve­hi­cle.

When they reached a dead end, three ban­dits, one of whom was armed with a gun, con­front­ed them.

The men were or­dered to lie on the road, and their mo­bile phones and wal­lets were stolen.

The ban­dits al­so took a Nis­san Wingroad be­long­ing to one of the vic­tims and es­caped in the stolen car.

Of­fi­cers from the Mor­vant Po­lice Sta­tion are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the mat­ter with sup­port from the Cy­ber Crime Unit.

— Shane Su­perville