Fourth man charged for Fine Grass, Manchester bar robbery

A fourth man has been charged in connection with a robbery at a bar in Fine Grass, Manchester.

Thirty-three-year-old labourer Jamie Campbell, otherwise called 'Bad', of Hopewell district in the parish, has been charged with conspiracy to robbery, robbery with aggravation, unauthorized possession of ammunition, and possession of prohibited weapon.

Already charged are 23-year-old construction worker Jovaun Levy, otherwise called 'Joo', Osani Tulloch, otherwise called 'Sanie', and 19-year-old Shamar Foster, otherwise called 'TJ'.

Reports from the Mandeville police are that about 9 p.m. on Sunday, April 07, two men, one armed with a firearm and the other with a crowbar, held up and robbed patrons of an undetermined sum of cash, cell phones, liquor and three poker machines with a combined value of over $2 million, before escaping in an awaiting motor vehicle.

The police were alerted, and they managed to intercept the getaway car with the robbers and the driver aboard along the Sedburg main road in the parish.

The vehicle was searched, and two cell phones were recovered.

The men then led the police to an abandoned building in the Hopewell community where a nine millimetre pistol with a magazine containing three rounds as well as the other stolen properties were recovered.

Following continued investigation, Campbell was arrested and taken into custody on Sunday, April 14.

He was charged after an interview in the presence of two Justices of the Peace where he admitted to conspiring with the previously charged men and also having knowledge of where the stolen items were stored, according to the police.

All four men are slated to appear in the Manchester Parish Court on Wednesday, April 24.

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