Armed thieves take $10 million, then drain debit cards in St Catherine home attack

Police in St Catherine and St Ann are probing a Sunday-night break-in at a Pleasant Farm home after bandits, police say, made off with $10 million in cash and later used the victims’ debit cards for more than $500,000 in dealings in St Ann.

Officers say that shortly after 11 p.m. on Sunday, July 12, a 51-year-old businessman arrived at his residence in Pleasant Farm, St Catherine, and was met by two men with firearms. The pair marched him inside at gunpoint, bound him and his wife, and searched the house.

Investigators allege the invaders took $10 million in cash and pressed the couple for their debit cards and personal identification numbers. Once they had the cards and PINs, police say, the two men phoned a third person. That accomplice then travelled into St Ann and, using the stolen cards, withdrew or spent more than $500,000 without the couple’s consent.

The armed pair left the property afterwards. The husband and wife later worked themselves free and informed the police.

Linstead Division officers are heading the case, with detectives in St Ann assisting as the Force works to name and arrest those responsible.