If two would-be robbers who attempted to enter a Cayman National Bank branch Tuesday were contestants on the venerable US game show Let’s Make a Deal, they would have picked the wrong door.
Behind door number one Tuesday at the Countryside Shopping Centre CNB was a locked, card-operated swipe system that foiled the two suspects’ attempts at entry.
Behind door number two was an open entry into the bank.
The suspects, according to police, tried only one door before running off.
It was the wrong one.
Witness accounts at the CNB branch, which was robbed in February 2010, indicated the two armed suspects in Tuesday’s attempted heist came from behind the bank.
The two were said to be carrying handguns when they appeared at the CNB door and rattled the handle just after noon Tuesday.
Royal Cayman Islands Police said the men attempted to enter, found the door locked and then fled.
Officers were seen in the Savannah area shortly after the attempted robbery, stopping and searching random vehicles. As of press time there was no word on any arrests.
No shots were fired in the incident and no one was hurt.
Tuesday’s attempted heist was the third major crime reported involving a Cayman Islands bank in 2011.
In early April, the First Caribbean Bank branch in George Town’s Plaza Venezia was hit by armed men who didn’t manage to rob the bank, but who did take money from two customers inside the business.
In mid-May, burglars attempted – by way of a tunnel – to enter the Butterfield Bank branch at the Compass Centre. The bank was closed on that day for the Discovery Day holiday.
There were also three bank robberies in 2010 on Grand Cayman.
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