Three city robberies keep cops busy

While police appear to have solved the O’Brien shooting, they are trying to catch up with the perpetrators of a series of armed robberies last night. The spree started on Church Street around six-thirty when police say two men held up sixteen year old Ceferino Salam. The teenager told police that one of the men held a knife to his chest while the other took away his bicycle. An hour and a half later on Albert Street West, the weapon of choice for the robbers was a handgun. Twenty-one year old Sharlene Flowers told police she was in front of the James Garbutt School when two men on bicycles approached her. One of them placed a gun at her side, while the other relieve Flowers of three gold chains valued at eight hundred and twenty-five dollars. The third victim is forty-two year old Yvette Young. Young claims that she was walking on Simon Lamb Street when three men on bicycles accosted her. One of the assailants grabbed her hair, while the other two robbed her of jewellery valued at one hundred and fifty-five dollars. Police Press Officer G. Michael Reid says the three robberies do not appear to be connected. No arrests have been made in connection with the incidents and the police are appealing to anyone with information to call the 9-2-2 hotline. The police have pledged to put more manpower on the streets in an effort to beef up security during this Christmas season.