Crime
Monday Morning Attempted Bank Robbery foiled by victim, but we still haven’t heard from TCI Police
Deandrea Hamilton
Editor
#TurksandCaicos, May 27, 2022 – Four days on and there has still been no official report and no announcement of arrests in the case of a wild, wild, west alleged attempted armed robbery in the vicinity of CIBC FirstCaribbean Bank on Leeward Highway in Providenciales.
Officials have allowed speculation to lead the narrative of this disturbing crime which happened at the start of the work week and work day on Monday May 23.
We still don’t know at this hour whether it was an armed robbery ambush thwarted by an alert, quick thinking business man but we do know that the gun shots fired by alleged assailants were so powerful that people living in Kew Town heard the blast off of bullets. Customers said it made the entire bank building shake.
Police officer Lauralee Jagroop confirmed that indeed shots were fired but nothing more; that was Monday morning.
The bank was barely opened, just minutes after 9am and already, it seems, an armed robbery was in train.
Residents who were stood outside the bank waiting to enter for service, ran inside out of fear at the frightening scene playing out just feet away from them. That’s what we were told by a person inside when the shots rang out.
It is said a company cash deposit was on the way to the bank, when the carrier of it noticed a vehicle approaching head on in the wrong direction. A voice note, widely circulated on social media explained the people in that threatening vehicle were masked and the man being targetted got suspicious and tried to get away.
He tried to dart past the suspicious vehicle and that’s when shots were recklessly fired after his car, shattering the
Our news organization was told he was admitted. It was never reported that someone was injured, how severely and whether the individual was hit was a bullet. We also enquired at the TCI Hospitals.
Residents had a variety of reactions after the news was posted. A church pastor offered up a prayer for heavenly intervention and strategies to beat back the crime wave; another called for police to be stationed at all of the banks in Provo permanently, there are only four of them and another hoped for a thorough investigation so the culprits could be caught due to reliable, compelling evidence.
The bank was closed temporarily, the CIBC FirstCaribbean parking lot turned to a crime scene.
CIBC FirstCaribbean, like everyone else in the case offered no comment on the alleged crime to the general public and its customers.