Police arrest robbery suspect

The suspected robber who threw a woman to the ground after running off with her purse as she left work on Wednesday morning has been arrested, Police said.

Police said that at 12.20 a.m. on Wednesday they responded to a report of a robbery on Reid Street in Hamilton.

“The complainant states that she was leaving work and was attempting to get on her livery cycle when she was approached by a male who grabbed her purse and threw the complainant on the ground and ran away towards Washington Lane.”

Police said the victim ran back to her office where one of her colleagues chased the robber up Reid Street.

Her colleague “chased the suspect all the way to Washington Street and Victoria Street where the suspect was lost. The purse, however, was recovered with all its contents intact,” Police said.

Police obtained a description of the robber and were searching the area when “they saw a man fitting the description behaving in a suspicious manner in the area of Dundonald Street”.

“He was arrested and conveyed to Hamilton Police Station,” Police said.

Church targeted by thieves again

A pastor is asking a thief to “come and see me” after his Glebe Road, Pembroke, church was broken into again.

Rev. Leonard Santucci of the Heard Chapel AME Church wants to help the intruder, after a TV and food items were taken in the robbery early this week.

“If they have a need all they have to do is come and see me. There is no need to break in and steal. If they are hungry, I will help them find food or even accommodation if the need is there,” he said.

Rev. Santucci said he was working with Police after a rash of break-ins at the church.

Cell phone used to track down bag

A Pembroke woman whose home was broken into on Thursday had to call her cell phone to discover the location of her stolen handbag.

Police responded to a report of a breaking and entering on Point Shares Road in Pembroke.

“It appears that at 7 p.m. the complainant returned home and placed her handbag on a wooden shelf next to a window and then retired to another part of the house,” Police said.

But when the woman returned to the shelf to get her bag at around 10.15 p.m. her bag was gone.

“The complainant had a cell phone in the bag and as a result she called her cell phone. It was at that point she noticed her hand bag in her driveway minus a sum of money and a check,” Police said.

Police inquiries are under way.