Hamilton on Monday evening. A 25-year-old Pembroke woman told detectives she was walking along Laffan Street near the Bull's Head Car Park around 6.15 p.m., when a man brandishing a knife came up beside her and snatched her handbag containing $700.

Investigations are also underway into a breaking and entering at the North Village Community Club on North Shore Road in Devonshire which occurred sometime during the early hours of Monday morning.