Shane Su­perville 

Less than an hour af­ter be­ing robbed by two men who en­tered their maxi taxi, a dri­ver and pas­sen­ger spot­ted the same ban­dits and alert­ed po­lice as the men board­ed an­oth­er minibus on Mon­day night.

Po­lice said the dri­ver and pas­sen­ger were trav­el­ling east along the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route around 10.15 pm when they picked up two men in San Juan.

One of the men rang the bell to get out at the St Au­gus­tine tun­nel near the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI). As the men ex­it­ed, one of them pulled out a gun, point­ed it at the dri­ver and pas­sen­ger, and or­dered them to hand over their valu­ables.

The ban­dits stole two mo­bile phones, a pair of ear­rings, and a quan­ti­ty of cash be­fore es­cap­ing.

The vic­tims drove to the Tu­na­puna Po­lice Sta­tion to re­port the rob­bery but of­fi­cers there di­rect­ed them to make the re­port at the St Joseph Po­lice Sta­tion in­stead.

While head­ing to St Joseph, the vic­tims saw the same men get­ting in­to an­oth­er maxi. They fol­lowed the ve­hi­cle and kept the sus­pects in sight while con­tact­ing the po­lice.

Of­fi­cers from the St Joseph and Barataria sta­tions in­ter­cept­ed the maxi near Mt Lam­bert short­ly af­ter and ar­rest­ed both sus­pects.

Po­lice said they re­cov­ered a Smith and Wes­son pis­tol with 15 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion, along with cash and jew­ellery, from the men.

The sus­pects were tak­en to the St Joseph Po­lice Sta­tion pend­ing fur­ther en­quiries.