Three men arrested over bar robbery in Manchester, firearm seized
Published:Monday | April 8, 2024 | 5:41 PM
The quick response of the Christiana police led to the seizure of a firearm, the arrest of three men, and the recovery of several stolen items following a robbery at a bar in Fine Grass, Manchester on Sunday night.
The police report that about 9 p.m., two men, one armed with a firearm and the other with a crow bar, held up and robbed patrons of an undetermined sum of cash, cell phones, liquor valued at $150,000, and three poker machines valued at $1,800,000 before escaping in a waiting Toyota Voxy motor vehicle.
The police were alerted and their response led to the interception of the getaway car on Sedburg main road also in the parish.
The vehicle was searched and two cellular phones were recovered.
The men then led the police to an abandoned building in the Hopewell community where a nine millimetre pistol with a magazine containing three rounds as well as the other stolen properties were recovered.
The men were taken into custody.
However, their identities are being withheld pending further investigations.
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