Student abducted, lives to tell tale
A young woman is lucky to be alive after being abducted Tuesday night. The nineteen-year-old student was making her way towards the Palotti junction around seven o’clock when she was attacked by a man identified as Albert Guy. However, thanks to a Novelos bus driver, she escaped with only minor injuries.
Fitzroy Yearwood, P.R., Police Department
“She was approached by a male person in a brown four door car, who just pulled her into the vehicle and headed up the Northern Highway. When she realized her life was in danger, somewhere around the Haulover Bridge approach, she decided to jump out of the moving vehicle where she received minor injuries and bruises and scrapes. A driver of the Novelos bus who saw this lady’s life was in danger and immediately stopped his bus and went to her rescue. He followed the attacker and the female into some nearby bushes where he took a bat and hit the attacker in the back. The attacker then jumped back into his vehicle, the brown car and tried to move off. The driver of the Novelos bus reversed into the front of the vehicle causing some minor damages, but enough to cause the vehicle to be marked so we could know or they could know if they see it again. The lady was escorted to the Belama Police Station, then later to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital for treatment. The driver of the car escaped in his vehicle even though the bus driver tried a lot to prevent his escape. At about nine-thirty p.m., the police received a report at number two thirty-four Belama Extension Phase Two. When we checked into this report, we found the same brown car we were looking for earlier. And the driver of the vehicle, in the same vehicle (in the earlier incident) and we escorted him and the vehicle to the Queen Street Police Station where he was identified as the attacker. He was charged with forcible abduction and threat of death.”
Jose Sanchez
“A lot of people are wondering because of the whole new amalgamation of schools into U.B. Wouldn’t you say perhaps the police need to step up on patrols in the UCB, SJC, Kings Park, Technical area?”
Fitzroy Yearwood
“Sanchez, a good point you brought up. I must inform you that from during the last school year we have what we call P.B.O’s, Permanent Beat Officers, who have been working in this area from about eight in the morning until ten-thirty, eleven at night. These officers made random patrols on foot and bicycles and even in vehicles in this populated school area, where we know we have Edward P. Yorke, SJC and so forth. And yes this incident might have sparked something, but we’ll just strength our patrols in that area even more. Even though they are in the area already. We want the public to know that the police presence is there.”
In related news, a police sub-station is currently under construction in West Landivar to provide increased police presence in the area, which houses a number of educational institutions.
