A Kingston man has been charged with using a weapon to hold up and rob a man in Ocho Rios, St Ann.
Charged is forty-five-year-old Steve Johnson, otherwise called ‘Mikey’, a mason of Seaview Gardens, Kingston 11. He has been charged with robbery with aggravation and possession of a prohibited weapon arising out of an incident more than a month ago on Milford Road in Ocho Rios, St. Ann. Police did not state the type of weapon.
Reports from the Ocho Rios Police are that about 11:40 p.m., on Tuesday, November 22, Johnson and another man allegedly held up the complainant and robbed him of $4,000. The alleged robbers then escaped on foot in the area.
On Thursday, December 22, a month later the complainant was walking in the Ocho Rios town centre when he spotted Johnson. He alerted the police and pointed out Johnson to them. Johnson was then arrested and later charged. His court date is being finalized.
C Hall
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