Woman’s laptop snatched out of her car…while she was using it

Shortly after eleven-thirty this morning, a woman was robbed of her laptop computer on Vernon Street. It happened while forty-two year old Patricia Rodriguez was sitting in vehicle using her computer when a man pushed his hand through the open window, grabbed the laptop and dashed through a Mayflower Street alley. A short while later police responded to the scene and went to the home of Paul Bradley. We found his family riled up, saying that police detained the wrong man. Bradley’s wife, Erma Bradley, told us that she saw two men run through her yard and later found out about the robbery from police.

Erma Bradley, Wife of Paul Bradley

“Mammy, I really nuh know weh happen because I mi deh back ah fu we yaad yah with my next sista-in-law, we di wash and we just si wah group ah young man dash through the yaad yah suh and we nuh know weh happen but lee bit afta that my husband hail me and my sista-in-law say he ask she fi guh buy mango fi ah so she tell ah fi she foot di hot ah. All we si down right yah pahn this bench di talk lee thing and when we look wi si the police deh run in yah suh with a Spanish lady and Spanish man; and me nuh know weh ih di ask ah inna Spanish cause me nuh undastand Spanish. He ask ah something and point pahn ah and mussie tell ah dah he. Well the police deh rush up in yah and di harass he and drag up he and handcuff ah suh I jump up.”

Andrea Polanco

“Drag up who, your husband?”

Erma Bradley

Erma Bradley

“My husband. Suh I jump up and say ‘no, unu cyaa ker he fi nuttn and he just come outside’ and the police man point the gun afta me and tell me mek I get outta this. My husband nuh go nowhere, fi he DVD mi still deh on inna the house weh ih di watch, he nuh come outside. Then deh dah stupidness and then the police want mek people help them.”

Andrea Polanco

“Suh you feel like that deh just di target unu because unu live inna dis area?”

Erma Bradley

“Yes, I guess suh because he nuh mingle; he nuh even talk to nobody round yah; he neven like me deh out deh di talk to anybody out yah. He always tell me fi keep inna mi house and he just come out yah come sit down.”

Andrea Polanco

“The police say anything else to unu?”

Erma Bradley

“No, well the one deh weh come afterwards he just tell we that wah robbery happen and that deh di ker ah fi something and when deh review the tape, if dah nuh he deh wah let ah go.”

Andrea Polanco

“Suh deh ker yuh husband?”

Erma Bradley

“Yes mammi and fi he hand sick. Now could you believe deh wah rob somebody on Vernon Street and come right yah come sit down? That nuh mek no sense.”

News Five understands that the security cameras from nearby businesses didn’t pick up the crime being committed, but the screams of the woman alerted neighbors who called the police.