According to police reports, a man and a woman were robbed by three armed men at their home around 12.30am Tuesday.
Police said one suspect carried a handgun, another had a machete and the third used a knife.
Some cash was taken by the robbers along with a white Honda Odyssey which police said was stolen from outside the victims’ house.
At the time of the theft the white Honda Odyssey was displaying the license plate # 142696.
No one was hurt in the robbery.
Two of the suspects were both about 5’10” and slim. They wore blue jeans and had their faces covered. The third suspect was described as ‘stocky’ and also wore blue jeans.
Tuesday’s incident was at least the third attempt at an armed robbery to occur in the Palm Dale area since November.
Just last month, RCIPS officers said a man was set upon by two armed suspects just outside his house. The suspects in that robbery also carried a gun and a knife and got away with a bag of cash.
In November, a married couple returning to their house around 11pm were attacked by a man in a Halloween mask. The armed robber made an attempt to snatch the woman’s bag just outside the couple’s home, but was struck in the head by the make victim – who used a cup to fight off the would-be robber. Nothing was taken in that case.
Anyone with information about any of the incidents in Palm Dale is asked to contact George Town Police Station at 949-4222, the police tip line at 949-7777 or Crime Stoppers at 800-8477 (TIPS).
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These thugs know the area off Crewe Road – that’s why! I see police patrolling the G.T. central, but in the neighborhoods, where are they?
This is the 3rd time Palm Dale has been hit. It is a good get-away venue for the robbers, because behind Palm Dale, you can escape to Ryan’s Road or you can escape to Tropical Gardens. It is easy if you find a trail alongside the Airport fencing, behind these neighborhoods that turn off Crewe Road. There is also Crewe Close and two other roads before that, where thugs can get into Palm Dale by foot. These crooks can move from one Crewe Road neighborhood to the next by foot and have their get away cars elsewhere.
But I guess with the amount of overseas officers we have; especially, the officers from the UK with no local knowledge, I expecting to see more neighborhoods hit in the future whilst the crooks get away.
No one was hurt in the robbery.(And no shots were fired).
This has to be the most disgraceful, demeaning and misleading comments ever offered on incidents of violent crime…
And, please, my comments are not targeted at Caycompass.
Yes, PEOPLE WERE HURT !
They were hurt by having their lives and safety threatened, they were hurt by having their property and valuables taken that they have toiled hard to earn, including a motor vehicle.
They were hurt by having their lives traumatised and disrupted; they were hurt by having their sense of safety violated, their trust in human nature forever destroyed and they will be forever scarred, looking over their shoulders, fearing every knock on their door and the approach of every strange person that they don’t know.
As far as I’m concerned, that’s more than enough hurt for me.
This might not go down well with some law-abiding citizens but I would have absolutely no problem pushing the limits of the law…
And dishing out a little hurt of my own, if some of these cowards ever crossed my path.
Agree completely with Firery, and some of what Bodden says…but Bodden, the comment about overseas officers, and especially UK ones with ‘no local knowledge’ – what are you talking about? Any overseas officer would be just as unfamiliar with the area. An officer from Jamaica would have zero knowledge when first arriving, as would a UK officer – so how is it ‘especially’ UK officers??
The biggest threat to these offenders is probably the likelihood of getting hit by a drunk driver/driver on their phone, whilst they try to make good their escape.
Firery, we may disagree on other things but you have my 100% support on those comments.
Just bear in mind that this is the same area where two white RCIPS officers were violently attacked by local residents after trying to make a traffic stop not so long ago
What’s the old saying about getting what you deserve?
My nightmare has become a reality. When all the robberies started I knew it was only a matter of time until these crooks target residential areas. These forsaken colossal waste of skins will realize that us hard-working good people have no way to defend ourselves. So they can take what the want, when they want.
And I guess that time is now.
The right to bear arms in ones own home, if you have no criminal record.
These burglaries would all stop.
Don’t know how many times I have to say this.
Because these burglars are not going to stop on their own. No amount of prison sentences to the ones who are caught. Are going to stop or deter, the ones that think they won’t get caught.
Make them fear for their lives. And this will all stop.
I have to agree with Big Berd; the evidence is pretty much in favour of what he says…nothing is really being done to stop these robberies…so they’re getting more prevalent and threatening more neighbourhoods.
Its a well-known fact that certain areas and neighbourhoods rarely get targeted for home invasiions and robberies…why ?
Because by either legal or ‘illegal’ means, the residents of those neighbourhoods are more than capable of preventing them.
If people think that everyone in the Cayman Islands are innocent victims meekly sitting down waiting to be victimised, then they certainly don’t know some of the people that I do, and that is from ‘gated’ communities right down to the neighbourhoods in which some of these robbers live and come from.
Cayman does not need to become an armed camp for people to accept the situation that tells them that they need to harden their attitudes and measures for their own protection…if that includes arming themselves and their homes…
Then that is what they need to do.
Another important method is to now form a Citizens Defense Association, or whatever people wish to call it and network information and apply political pressure to have the self-defense laws in Cayman changed to suit the current coditions…
If people can join the Lions, Kiwanis, Rotary and whatever clubs for social and financial advancement, surely some sort of community association to adrress the criminal threat to Cayman’s law-abiding community should be considered by the people who are most vulnerable…
Nothing ever gets done without collective effort and political pressure and Cayman’s citizens need to accept this and act accordingly.