The Tribune

By SANCHESKA DORSETT

Tribune Staff Reporter

sdorsett@tribunemedia.net

POLICE in Andros are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man following a motorcycle accident on Monday afternoon.

The accident took place shortly after 3pm near Morgan’s Bluff.

According to reports, the victim was riding his Honda motorcycle at the junction of Lowe Sound and Morgan’s Bluff, when he lost control and crashed into a tree.

The man died from his injuries on the scene. Anyone with information on this accident is asked to contact police immediately.

Officers from the Police Traffic Department in New Providence are in Andros, assisting with the investigations

Armed robberies

In other crime news, police are asking for the public’s help in locating the persons responsible for four separate armed robberies that took place on Monday.

In the first incident, shortly before 11am, police said a man was leaving a bank in the Harbour Bay Shopping Centre when a man armed with a handgun approached and robbed him of a large amount of cash before fleeing in a grey Odyssey vehicle driven by another man.

In the second incident, shortly after 7pm, police said a man pulled into the driveway of his home in Dignity Gardens, when two males armed with a handgun approached and robbed him of a gold chain and his red Honda vehicle before speeding off. Hours later the vehicle was recovered abandoned in Jubilee Gardens.

Then shortly after 9pm a woman was standing in front of her Christie Avenue home when two men armed with a handgun approached and robbed her of her cell phone before speeding off in a red Honda.

In the final incident, police said a woman had just pulled up to her home in Blue Hill Heights when two men armed with a handgun approached and robbed her of her handbag containing personal items before speeding off in a red Honda.

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