Suspected serial knife robber nabbed…after snatching bag, wounding woman

Dec 18, 2015 News

Women living between Alberttown, Queenstown and Kitty may now have a safer Christmas, following the capture yesterday of a man suspected of carrying out a spate of knifepoint attacks on women in these areas.

The alleged serial robber being taken into custody.

The man, who identified himself to police as Devon Morrison, 22, was captured shortly after 08.00 hrs in Queenstown, Georgetown, after slashing a woman and snatching her handbag.
His arrest was due to the quick response of security guards attached to a mining company in the area, backed up by police ranks involved in the Operation Dragnet anti-crime fight.
Video footage of the arrest suggests that the robber had an accomplice, who is seen pulling down his cap and sneaking away from the area.
According to reports, a woman had just left the compound of a Queenstown mining company when the thief slashed her hand and grabbed her bag.
He then fled through an alleyway that labourers were cleaning.
But security guards from the mining company gave chase, though they were forced to fire in the air because of the presence of the cleaners in the alley.
One of the guards eventually nabbed the robber, who still had the victim’s valuables.
It was then that some members of the cleaning gang confronted a guard who was holding the suspect and forced him to release the thief, who sought refuge in a nearby schoolyard.
By then, police ranks had arrived, but the same cleaners refused to disclose the suspect’s location, choosing instead to whisper to a reporter on the scene: “He safe.”
The ranks eventually found the hiding thief, even as his alleged accomplice managed to slip away from the scene.
Police sources said that while the suspect was being taken away, at least five other women spotted him and identified him as the same man who had recently robbed them at knifepoint. The victims are said to be from Alberttown and Kitty.
The suspect reportedly gave the police several addresses, including Linden, Kitty and Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara.