On Monday February 5, 2018 at around 10:15 a.m., three hooded individuals burst into the Loterie Farm leisure center in Colombier.
"Under the threat of a handgun and a cutter, they tied up the site manager and two employees, then took banknotes, telephones and handbags. They then fled aboard a vehicle but were arrested at the Hope Estate roundabout by the effect of a gendarmerie device immediately put in place by PSIG personnel from Saint-Martin and EGM 13/5 Sathonnay.
The search of the authors' vehicle found a total of 21 US Dollars and 400 euros, a supplied weapon and the clothes and masks used by the authors. Originally from the Dutch part of the island, they were placed in police custody on the premises of the detachment of the research section of Saint-Martin.
The assistance of the Dutch judicial and police authorities was requested in the pursuit of the investigations. The three detained were presented yesterday at the courthouse for a correctional hearing of immediate appearance, the counts of theft aggravated by three circumstances (recidivism for one of them), forcible confinement and arbitrary detention, attempt of robbery with violence without ITT and refusal to comply with endangering others, "said the prosecution of Saint Martin in a statement released Tuesday, February 6.
The flagrance investigation, mobilizing a large workforce at the Detachment of the Research Section, is continuing under the direction of the Detached Prosecutor's Office in Saint-Martin, in collaboration with the Dutch police and the Prosecutor's Office in Sint-Maarten. _AF
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