A woman had her handbag snatched as she walked along Pitts Bay Road in Pembroke on Thursday night.

The 26-year-old victim, from Pembroke, was walking in the area of Primavera Restaurant at 10.20 p.m. when she was targeted by the male robber.

He made good his escape, running between Primavera and the Bacardi building. The woman called out for help and a member of the public came to her assistance.

Her handbag was later located but the culprit had stolen $40 in cash and a silver Nokia cellular phone from it. The suspect is a white male with a close haircut, approximately five feet, ten inches tall and wearing a black jacket.

Cops saw suspect leaving break-in

A suspect was caught red-handed breaking in to a Court Street, Pembroke, restaurant in the early hours of yesterday morning.

The incident saw the alleged offender smash his way in through the back of the restaurant and out through the front after a failed attempt to swipe cash from the till.

Extensive damage was caused the glazing at the restaurant, and it opened four hours later than usual at 3 p.m. yesterday due to the Police investigation and repairs that were necessary.

Officers had been alerted to the incident at Island Chicken at 4.05 a.m., to be informed by the owners that they had heard noises at the back of the restaurant when they arrived to set up for the day.

When Police went to investigate these noises, they saw a man emerge from the building. He ran along Court Street and through several properties in the area with the officers in pursuit and was eventually caught hiding under a boat in a nearby parking lot.

The suspect, a 44-year-old Devonshire man, was arrested on suspicion of breaking and entering. The two officers suffered light injuries during the arrest.

A member of staff at Island Chicken, who did not give her name, said: ?Someone broke in through the back with a crowbar, didn?t get any money out of the till but did damage to it, and then broke out through the front. The entrance door was broken and there was some damage to the cash register and to the roof.?

Management at the restaurant declined to comment, and Police would not say whether anything was taken during the break-in.

A Smith?s man has been fined $400 for throwing a bottle at a Police car during Monday?s outbreak of violence in St. George?s following the Dudley Eve final.

Prosecutor Wayne Caines told yesterday?s plea court that Police responding to reports of a fight at Wellington Oval on January 2 but were met with a hail of bottles in Mullet Bay Road. He said Justin Ratteray, 21, of Sears Hill Road threw a bottle which narrowly missed the Police vehicle before running off. He was soon caught by Police but denied throwing the bottle.

In court yesterday he admitted throwing the bottle but denied aiming at the vehicle and said he was throwing it toward trees. He said: ?I was walking towards my car. There were bottles all over the street. I never threw it in the direction of the cops. I have no reason to.?

A Devonshire man has been banned from the road and fined $1,000 after pleading guilty to driving while twice over the legal drink limit. John Lema, 67, of Marsh Lane, was spotted swerving all over Middle Road by Police on November 26 last year.

When they pulled him over he had difficulty getting out of the vehicle and standing. Lema, a maintenance worker with no previous convictions, pleaded guilty to the offence in Magistrates? court on Wednesday.

A man who refused to give Police a breath sample after a bike accident has been banned from the road for a year.

Crown Counsel Wayne Caines told Magistrates? Court yesterday that Mansfield Francis?s Ergon bike was in a collision with a white Mitsubishi Jeep at the junction of Glebe Road and Parsons Road, Pembroke, on November 28.

After this incident, at 6.15 p.m., he said, Police found Francis, 58, of Upland Road, Devonshire being held by a fellow motorist outside the Jamaican Grill restaurant on Court Street. The motorist told the officers Francis had tried to leave the scene of the accident.

Francis refused to undergo a breath test and was subsequently charged with this offence. He pleaded guilty to this but not guilty to driving while impaired, a charge which the crown opted not to proceed with.

Senior Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo fined Francis $800 as well as handing him the disqualification.

A Salvation Army resident was fined $200 in Magistrates? Court for drinking beer in a public place.

Henry James Landy, 48, pleaded guilty to drinking an intoxicating liquor on Front Street on September 7.

Crown counsel Wayne Caines said plainclothes Police were on foot patrol when they arrested Landy for drinking a bottle of Super Tennants containing 6.7 milligrams of ethanol per 100 millilitres.

?There is nothing wrong with drinking ? its just where you drink,? Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo advised. ?That super beer cost you $200.?

But when Landy said he could only pay $100 on Thursday, Mr. Tokunbo ordered him to pay the rest of his fine by January 10 or spend ten days in prison. The duty counsel was defence lawyer Larry Scott.