Woman, 2 men arrested

According to police, at about 5 pm on Saturday, the suspects went to a Chinese supermarket in Carapichaima and ordered an employee to hand over cash from the register. The employee complied and the bandits seized $1,000 and an undisclosed amount of cigarettes before escaping in a car parked nearby.

A report was made to the Freeport Police Station and an all-points-bulletin was issued.

The report added that police set up a road block exercise at Taitt Madoo Road in Freeport where they later spotted and intercepted the getaway vehicle.

Officers arrested three persons including the lone female occupant but two other suspects managed to elude the police by running off into a bushy area.

Up to yesterday the two suspects remained at large but police are confident of arresting them soon as their identities and addresses were revealed during an interrogation of the three detained suspects.