Gunmen storm Deputy City Mayor’s home
–one in custody
QUICK action by the police early yesterday morning has led to the arrest of a suspect and recovery of some of the stolen items following an armed robbery at the home of Deputy City Mayor, Ms. Patricia Green-Chase. Chase-Green, who resides in East La Penitence, credited the police in that jurisdiction with making the timely arrest and recovery after she’d reported the matter.
The bandits, she said, had gained entry to the upper flat of the two-storey building by climbing on some cement blocks at the side of the house to reach the verandah, before they broke the glass section of the wooden door to the house.
Although not masked, the men wore camouflage hoods that covered their faces. Two were inside the house with the Greens, but they later learnt that another gunman was standing guard in the yard.
Chase-Green said the first person the bandits encountered upon entering the house was her nine-year-old grandson, Lamar, who had gone to the washroom to urinate. They placed a gun to his head and asked who was at home with him, before pushing him into his bedroom.
Still shocked at the thought of the incident, Chase-Green said she got up from bed at about 02:30hrs to investigate a noise inside the house, and was confronted by a gunman who chucked her, snatched the gold chain she was wearing, and rudely asked what she was doing before shoving her into her bedroom.
The intruder was joined by an accomplice who also had a gun; and when her husband, Terrence Green, called “Tiger”, woke up and asked what was happening, one of the bandits gun-butted him to the face, opening a wound which required several sutures.

Ransacked
Demanding money and jewellery, Chase-Green said the bandits began ransacking all three bedrooms in search of valuables, while holding herself, her husband (a former boxer), and three others at gunpoint.
Chase-Green said, “They searched everywhere in the house, even in the refrigerator. They spent about 20 minutes just ransacking the wardrobes and drawers in the bedrooms, looking for gold jewellery and money.”
Chase-Green told the Chronicle that the bandits took away all the family’s bank and identification cards, besides money, jewels and several household items, including a video game, television and remote, a laptop, and several bottles of champagne, two of which were recovered in an alleyway nearby.
Displaying injuries to his face, Terrence Chase, aka “Tiger”, yesterday told this publication that the bandits took everything, even his wedding band along with two other rings he had hidden in the clothes closet. The Greens’ daughter-in-law was also beaten during the ordeal.

First time
Chase-Green disclosed that this was the first time the family had been robbed since residing at that location for the past 28 years.
Police said that at about 02:30hrs on Saturday, March 10, 2012, the Deputy Mayor, her husband and two other relatives were held at gunpoint by three men, two of whom were armed with firearms and had entered the home by prising a door open. The perpetrators took away jewellery, three cell phones, a play station, and a television set before escaping.
Quick response and diligent police enquiries led to the arrest of a suspect at Tucville, Georgetown, and recovery of the television set and one of the cell phones.
The suspect is in police custody assisting with investigations.