3 arrested for Placencia robbery attempt

In an update to a brazen robbery attempt in Placencia, police have caught the three suspects. Nineteen year old Ryan Valerio, twenty-nine year old Ecleston Bonilla, both of Dangriga and thirty year old Clifford Caballero of Seine Bight, have all been arrested and charged with robbery, attempted murder, conspiracy to commit robbery and several firearm and ammunition charges. According to police, Valerio is being treated at the Southern Regional Hospital for a gunshot wound received during a shootout with the cops. It is alleged that on Friday, the three men attempted to rob an Atlantic bank employee as he was leaving the village’s airstrip with an undisclosed sum of money by placing logs across the road. The thieves managed to get as far as “The Plantation” with the stolen money, but thanks to quick efforts from the police, were forced to abandon the cash and car. A massive manhunt was launched in co-operation with the villagers and the men were captured on Saturday.