The Tribune

By SANCHESKA BROWN

Tribune Staff Reporter

sbrown@tribunemedia.net

MAYAGUANA Island Administrator Charles Moss said he needs extensive dental work and therapy after he was “gun-butted” and tied up during a robbery he described as “the most terrifying moment” of his life.

Mr Moss was abducted and robbed on Tuesday by two masked men who forced their way into his home around 3am and took him to his office where they stole a “significant amount of money” from the safe.

Speaking with The Tribune yesterday, Mr Moss said he has still not recovered from the ordeal that he is certain will haunt him for the rest of his life. He said he is not sure if and when he will return to work as he still has “a long way to go” in physical therapy.

“Saying that it was scary would be an understatement. My family could have woken up and I would have been dead. So my kids are obviously quite concerned,” Mr Moss said.

He said he doubts the assailants are natives of Mayaguana, which has a small, tightly-knit population of less than 400 people.

“I don’t think it is anyone from Mayaguana who did this. Being from here you tend to know most people, but I do not want to say much about the incident because the investigation is still ongoing. It was such a horrifying experience I had to go to the dentist and get a tooth replaced and go to therapy for my back because of the position I was tied up in for over five hours.

“People can say what they would have done if they were me or how they would do something different, but the truth is, until you get in this position you will never know how you will act. I just thank God I am alive and that He had His hands over me.”

According to Assistant Commissioner of Police Anthony Ferguson, Mr Moss was taken from his home around 3am Tuesday by a number of armed men.

“We are still investigating but the information we have is that he was home when some men broke into his house, struck him with something in the head and tied him up,” he said.

“They then took him to his office where they forced him to open the safe and stole a significant amount of money before fleeing the scene. The administrator was left tied up in the office until about 8:30am when an office employee came in to work.”

Mr Ferguson said police are unsure of how much money was stolen. He said an auditor from New Providence is still determining how much money should have been in the safe.

No one is in police custody for the incident.

Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 911 or 919, the Central Detective Unit at 502-9991 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 328-TIPS.