Fake cops rob, abduct man in Portland Cottage, Clarendon
CLARENDON, Jamaica — Gunmen travelling in a convoy and posing as policemen, robbed and abducted a man in Portland Cottage, Lionel Town, Clarendon, this afternoon.
The abducted man, a fisherman, was eventually released, the police said. He was not injured.
Police report that about 2:10 pm, four men were patrons at a bar in Portland Cottage, when three motor vehicles drove up. Men dressed in civilian clothes, bulletproof vests marked ‘police’ and armed with rifles and handguns, exited the vehicles.
It is reported that the men identified themselves as cops. Three of the men in the bar ran, leaving the fisherman. The men then reportedly robbed the fisherman of his phone and a bag containing his passport and cash.
The men also robbed him of his Toyota Wish motorcar, which was parked outside the bar.
The police said the gunmen placed the fisherman in a white Mitsubishi Pajero, blindfolded him and sped off in the convoy. Along the way, one of the vehicles, a white Toyota Probox, blew a tyre. The men abandoned the car along the roadway.
On entering the highway from Freetown, the men kicked the fisherman out of the Pajero.
Police said checks revealed that the abandoned Probox motorcar was reported stolen in St Catherine.
– David Dunkley