Police intercept suspects in Manchester armed robbery
MANCHESTER, Jamaica —Three men have been slapped with several charges after the police reportedly intercepted their getaway car following a robbery at a bar in Fine Grass District, Manchester on Sunday.
The men have been identified as 23-year-old construction worker Jovaun Levy, otherwise called ‘Joo’ of Sedburg in Manchester, Osani Tulloch, otherwise called ‘Sanie’ of Shields Bush, and 19-year-old Shamar Foster, otherwise called ‘TJ’ of Ballynure District also in the parish.
They are charged with three counts of robbery with aggravation, three counts of unauthorised possession of ammunition and possession of prohibited weapon.
The police report that around 9:00 pm, two of the accused, one armed with a firearm and the other with a crowbar, held up and robbed patrons of an undetermined sum of cash, cell phones, liquor and three poker machines with a combined value of over $2 million.
The men then reportedly escaped in a waiting Toyota Voxy motor vehicle, the police said.
Officers reportedly intercepted the getaway car along the Sedburg main road in the parish, where the vehicle was searched and two cellular phones were recovered.
The police said the men then led them to an abandoned building in the Hopewell community where a 9mm pistol with a magazine containing three rounds as well as the other stolen properties were recovered.