Three arrested after bar owner robbed

Three men were apprehended and a firearm seized following a robbery in Snow Hill district in Portland on Friday night.

The police report that about 11 p.m., the complainant was in the process of closing her bar when a Toyota Probox motor car drove up with armed men aboard.

The men exited the vehicle and reportedly pushed her inside the bar and proceeded to rob her of personal items, an undetermined sum of money, liquor and cigarettes before fleeing the scene. The police were alerted and a Toyota Probox was intercepted along the Caenwood main road in Hope Bay with three men aboard. The police said that a Samsung cell phone belonging to the complainant was found in the men's possession.

The men were taken into custody pending further investigations into robberies and break-ins committed across the division. Following leads, lawmen conducted operations in St Margaret's Bay and Snow Hill where several premises were searched and a quantity of assorted liquor, suspected to have been stolen from business places in Portland were seized.

Subsequently, the police, acting on information, conducted an operation along the St Margaret's Bay main road where a bag was found.

During a search, a Luger 9mm pistol was seen with a magazine affixed containing two 9mm cartridges was found and seized, the police reported.