Two teenagers, ages 16 and 19, were yesterday arrested in connection with robbing former president Sir Ellis Clarke.
On September 25 at around 6.45 p.m., four men, two of whom were armed with shotguns, went to the home of the former president at Fairways, Maraval, held him up at gunpoint and escaped with his Audi A 4 motorcar.
The vehicle was later spotted by officers of the Stolen Vehicles Squad who gave chase. The driver of the car crashed into a parked vehicle and it was abandoned at Francis Street, Long Circular Road, St James.
The bandits immediately fled the scene.
The teenagers were arrested during an exercise spearheaded by Acting Commissioner of Police Glen Roach and including Snr Supt Raymond Craig which began at 5 p.m on Monday and ended at 2 p.m. yesterday in a house a Dibe, Long Circular, where the men were.
The men will be put on an identification parade in connection with a number of other robberies, police said.
Investigators also said other persons are being investigated with respect to Clarke's robbery.
Back on August 10, another ex-president, Arthur NR Robinson, featured prominently when bandits staged a robbery at the St Augustine home at Dr Marjorie Thorpe, a Dean at the University of the West Indies. At the time Robinson was a guest at a dinner party hosted by Dr Thorpe.
At 8.30 p.m. that evening, Ag Insp Edward Williams, Robinson's Special Branch bodyguard, was shot dead and his service weapon taken during a robbery attempt.
The bandits then fled the scene.
That case remains open and the Express understands that investigators have an idea who may have been behind the robbery/murder but are yet to make an arrest.
