Within a week’s time, six businesses were robbed and three of those robberies occurred on one day.
On Sunday, November 25 three businesses were robbed; the first one happened at 15:06 when the shop was busy closing for the day.
The cashier alleged that she was on duty working behind the counter when she noticed one customer was armed with a firearm.
He told her to open up the till; the suspects then handed over a plastic bag to her and told her to put all the money inside the bag. The suspect then took four bottles of expensive whiskey.
The amount of cash and liquor the suspects got away with is an undisclosed amount.
Earlier that morning at 08:10 the complainant alleged that he was on duty and everything was in order.
While he was sitting, he noticed an unknown man approaching him. The suspect was armed with a firearm.
A truck then drove into the yard and the suspects loaded the water pump machine and then drove off.
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At 08:00 when busy opening its doors for business, a suspect walked into the shop and grabbed the manager from behind.
That is when one of the employees overpowered the suspect and noticed that he had a firearm on his side.
The employee wanted to take the firearm when another suspect entered the shop and was also armed with a firearm.
Surrendering as the suspects had weapons, the suspects took cell phones and cash, then left the shop.
On Friday, November 23 at 17:20 just after the Black Friday rush started to slow down, another armed robbery took place at another liquor store.
Five unknown suspects were inside the store, two of them were armed with firearms.
The suspects made the two cashiers and seven customers lie on the floor. They took cash from the store, liquor and cigarettes.
On the same day just earlier a woman had just opened up the liquor shop when an unknown man, armed with a firearm walked into the shop.
He made her lie down on the ground and that is when he took the cigarettes and a bottle of liquor, the cashier’s cell phone and an undisclosed amount of cash.
Before he left, he kicked the one cashier in her stomach.
