What appeared to be a routine traffic stop turned into a violent ordeal on Friday afternoon when a contractor was ambushed by two gunmen posing as road workers.
The incident occurred shortly after 1 p.m. on Sir Andy Roberts Drive. The victim, who was driving alone, encountered traffic cones and two men in reflector vests signalling him to stop. Believing it to be legitimate, he slowed his vehicle before being forced out at gunpoint.
The assailants escaped with more than $19,000 in payroll cash, the contractor’s mobile phone, and his Jeep. Police later recovered the vehicle abandoned in Cades Bay, but the money and phone remain missing.
Authorities have launched an investigation into the armed robbery and are appealing for information from the public.
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The government should get solar powered streetlight with camera combination out of china to replace all existing streetlights system and help the police and government solve crime.
This incident is truly frightening because it shows how far criminals are willing to go to trick innocent people. Most of us were raised to respect traffic authorities and stop when flagged down, especially when we see cones and reflector vests. Now, it seems we have to second guess even that.More fightening each day in this country. The boldness of these gunmen is alarming. If they can pull off something like this in broad daylight, on a public road, it means they have no fear of being caught. I really hope the police take this seriously and not just issue a statement. We need more patrols and visible presence on our main roads to deter these types of attacks.
don’t worry people…just look at the bigger picture…..”Crime Is Down”
A he worker dem dat set that up, they know he a pass with payroll, so dem wait out
INSIDE JOB!! They had information about that payroll money! The lengths they went to, to get that cash, means they knew it was a big haul!! Some one of his employees are in on this!!! They should start there!
Ok gaia-net-x drone developement company propose a drone vigalante program for st jhons and sorounding business area, i implore the comunity to fund my project to protect the citizens of antigua and barbuda by a vigorous campainge to deter criminals from perpetrating ceime and violence in the area with drone survalance , ai cameras and sensors…contact gaianetx for more info and how to fund the projects, we have the technology ,its time to be more vigilant…
Seems like same persons that robbed Charlie on a roll i hope all a you get unalived too smh are you go ahead take chances.
Come on man!! I am tired of reading these stories.
This is the 21st century. Whyyyyyy are people still carrying around large amounts of cash? Why are people still paying workers with cash?
Move your business into the 21st century. As part of the hiring process, ask for bank account details and send the salaries to the bank. And don’t tell me nonsense about people not wanting to open bank accounts and blah blah……
Criminals are getting away with crime because we are allowing them to get away with crime. Don’t you think that criminals are out there watching to see that you are going to the bank for payroll?
Face it….crime is never ever going to go away because we are humans. We can put up cameras, do patrols, even neighborhood watches to help MINIMIZE crime, but it will never go away.
As law abiding citizens we have to start thinking smarter that the criminals, and know that one day they will be caught. Best believe they will end up one of three places….Barnes, Straffie’s, or 1735. Wherever they end up I know they will rot.
Whether this is an inside job or not, criminality engulfing the country is getting out of hand now, and my family, friends and associates cannot fathom why our Prime Minister has stayed silent on this URGENT matter.
When Baldwin Spencer was Prime Minister criminal activity was nowhere near the level it is today, the up and coming Gaston Browne was flapping he gums nonstop about what Baldwin should be doing to curtail crime.
Yet, here we all are in 2025 and yet to hear from our utterly reprehensible Prime Minister on these serious crimes and misdemeanors.
Wtf. That’s why I drive with my doors locked and windows up. If u want to talk I will crack my window and peep thru.
Big broad daylight like that somebody would have had to see something.
As a business man doesn’t he himself own a firearm
With all these robberies and murders and home invasions in this our once peaceful island home, my husband and I are rethinking our retirement plans.
With all these crimes going on we the people of the land need to evolve with the times. Go cashless… payroll should be done via bank accounts.. nobody should be walking around with that amount of money… Gaston our banking system need to assist all business big and more so small with these monthly fees for POS machines or even implement app that is affordable..
I notice from the time certain individuals were released from prison thanks to the privy council, they have been an increase in targeted robberies.
So it’s as simple as that? you put couple a cones down, two men put on vest, no visual sign of any road repair going on, no government vehicles etc, no heads up announcement on the news of conducting road work in that specific area, plus usually instead of two men it’s often one individual on either end holding up a sigh or flag directing traffic, keep in mind approaching a vehicle is not the job of a flag or sign man.
A contractor with that much cash in his vehicle casually and slowly drives up, I assume with windows down, obeying instructions and in all this time not one other vehicle appeared on the scene.
The good news is, he should be able to give full description of both individuals as they were so-called gov employees and I don’t believe mask was involved.
Asking the question again shouldn’t these Contractors and Businessman be strap while carrying such sum, or it’s just the gangsters that strap themselves at all times?
They are armored services in Antigua to carry those types of cash to your designated bank why Aru nu just hire security services to do aru transportations and pickups
Come on we need to be more mindful here
Anyone who travels with serious amounts of cash “alone” in this current environment is asking for serious trouble. The cost of utilizing armored or protective services must be far less than the cost and loss of life. Business people in particular must understand that they are under constant surveillance by these violent thieves and they are just waiting for the best opportunity to pounce on them. Everyone must become security conscious because we can no longer just take things for granted in Antigua and Barbuda
And sometimes it is the same people on the job that doing these kinds of things. When wickedness is so prominent on the land Jesus is on his way. I will enjoy the bitterness because the sweetness thats coming after will overtake any bad taste. Sad but true
Well from now on I’m raming through street signs. Nonesence this is
So bold and brazen!! Definitely an inside job. Are the police in Antigua sophisticated enough to deal with this?
I wouldn’t hire this contractor to build not even a dog house.
Leadership matters so much. Guttersnipe Leadership cannot bring about the change that is needed; how long is it going to take the people of this country to understand that. Opening new hotels, upgrading Harbour and concrete roads can’t change the crime situation it will only breed more criminals the solution is to rid the country of the GUTTERSNIPE LEADERSHIP
By the many comments on this incident, I see that the Anarchy that I warned about coming to Antigua, is here.
When criminals control the news, and are the ones who dictated how a free society freely goes about their lives, then that’s the example of an Anarchists state.
When free people are in fear of how to live their free lives, then we are in serious trouble.
Many suggestions on here that advise against carrying cash on you as a businessman, I’ve also seen suggestions in other places that one shouldn’t wear jewelry or anything expensive, or don’t drive around in a nice car or live in a nice house, because you are looking for trouble and inviting problems in your life..Really?
Just listen to all that fear exhibited in those comments, this is what Antigua has become.
I’ve been traveling all my life, and I’ve traveled throughout the Caribbean, Europe and almost the entire US and Canada, and not once in the pass 30 years I’ve ever been in fear of carrying cash or wearing whatever jewelry I wanted, but here we are right now in Antigua afraid to live our free lives as we so please because of criminals…just listen to that folks.
I hear the hypocrites stating that Antigua was a crime infested island under the UPP government some 14 years ago..well that’s one big fat lie..never in my entire life that I’ve heard so many people echoing this amount of fear about moving back and forth in Antigua, never, not even in carnival times or Christmas.
This current crime wave has started and came to a head in the past ten years..and that’s because this present administration is soft on crime.. any country, just don’t all of a sudden become a crime zone without the big bad government allowing it to.
Same as the crime problems in the 80’s and 90’s with the Mobs and drug lords having corrupt officials in their back pockets.
So we can look at when this crime problem started and why it started.
It starts from the head down, because no matter how many bad little boys or gangs are in Antigua, they do not have more power than any Government. Policing is a 24 hour program, right around the clock, so when criminals are sleeping, the police is still at work, and your trying to tell me that crime cannot be cleaned up in Antigua, and has just gotten worse and worse over the past 10 yrs?
Yes it may so political, because it is. I don’t care how careless and bad these so called gang bangers has become, at no time at all they should control the negative as to how a free people move about their lives.
So get off your arses, you self proclaimed “great government ” and do something now.
Again..no criminal has more power than the government…and if you people claim to be of God and having national day of prayer, well God do not take kindly to murderers, thieves, rapist, and anyone who hurt the innocent.
They are killing your business men with impunity, the very fabric of any economic society. The question, what this so-called ” Greatest Government” gonna do about it?
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