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Chinese restaurant ‘Seetos’ robbed @ gunpoint

- bandits escape with cash; no one reportedly injured
Employees and customers had a scare of their lives at the Seetos Chinese Restaurant and Bar‎ located in the Mill Mall on Wickham’s Cay I on Saturday night, August 22, 2015 when two armed bandits stormed the business place. Photo: VINO
According to an employee at the restaurant, it was sometime around 10:30pm on August 22, 2015 when she was preparing to close for the night that two men, with their faces masked and only their eyes visible, pounced on her demanding money. Photo: uppercumberlandnow.com
According to an employee at the restaurant, it was sometime around 10:30pm on August 22, 2015 when she was preparing to close for the night that two men, with their faces masked and only their eyes visible, pounced on her demanding money. Photo: uppercumberlandnow.com
WICKHAM'S CAY I, Tortola, VI - Employees and customers had a scare of their lives at the Seetos Chinese Restaurant and Bar‎ located in the Mill Mall on Wickham’s Cay I on Saturday night, August 22, 2015 when two armed bandits stormed the business place.

According to one of the employees present at the restaurant, Sue, it was sometime around 10:30pm when she was preparing to close for the night that two men, with their faces masked and only their eyes visible, pounced on her demanding money.

"One say give me all deh money, all deh money," Sue related. She said as she realised she was about to be robbed and aware that there were at least two customers on the outside of the restaurant, she decided to scream for help.

"I screamed so the customers could hear me," she recalled.

Sue said that following her screams one of her co-workers who was at the back of the restaurant, another Chinese national, came out to see what was happening when one of the bandits grabbed hold of him. At that point she ran outside but one of the gunmen followed her.

"I didn't want he hear me so I say call police, call police but he hear me and asked who call police? Who call police?" she said.

According to Sue, there was a third employee on the outside of the restaurant who she said saw the two men entering the store but thought they were customers. "He, the other guy who working with me saw the men when they came in. They came from the [Noel Lloyd Positive Action Movement] park side."

She said that while the one bandit engaged her on the outside the other remained inside holding the one employee hostage and relieved him of all the cash that was in the restaurant at the time.

The robbers both fled the scene after learning that the police was called. "Police came about 10 minutes but they (bandits) run and gone. They went to the park area," Sue told Virgin Islands News Online.

Up to press time the incident was not confirmed by the Public Relations Department of the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF). However, Police Information Officer Diane Drayton promised to respond to this news site’s request for confirmation later this morning August 24, 2015.

36 Responses to “Chinese restaurant ‘Seetos’ robbed @ gunpoint”

  • Brave (24/08/2015, 09:45) Like (50) Dislike (0) Reply
    She was very brave, she could have been shot!
  • DON Q (24/08/2015, 09:48) Like (100) Dislike (46) Reply
    This is was IPO was talking about...it has come to pass..NDP MUST GO
    • Ndp must stay (24/08/2015, 10:24) Like (6) Dislike (12) Reply
      What young people party did the one who robed first Caribbean belongs too eh. Not the ndp youth its the ready committee.
    • SHUT UP (24/08/2015, 10:24) Like (10) Dislike (4) Reply
      Hush ur mouth u sound so stupid
    • Just my two cent (24/08/2015, 10:29) Like (43) Dislike (4) Reply
      I am not NDP fan but how is this the NDP fault? There were robbery just the same when VIP was in power.
    • @ Don Q (24/08/2015, 12:27) Like (3) Dislike (6) Reply
      for real don q and the wicked NDP spin docts twist her words
    • real idot (24/08/2015, 13:27) Like (10) Dislike (1) Reply
      go learn to read and write from talking fart on the newsite them
    • DON Q (24/08/2015, 14:33) Like (9) Dislike (0) Reply
      why you don't leave the country if u don't like NDP. is better u leave!
  • ????? (24/08/2015, 09:56) Like (21) Dislike (4) Reply
    Were those useless cameras turned on?????
  • ndp (24/08/2015, 09:56) Like (4) Dislike (6) Reply
    crime is down.
  • shaolin temple (24/08/2015, 10:45) Like (26) Dislike (22) Reply
    I thought those chines had known kung fu?
    • B We I Lander (24/08/2015, 11:52) Like (29) Dislike (5) Reply
      @Shaolin Temple
      are u that stupid?????
      u ever hear Kung fu stop bullet????u
      ur ignorant statement just upset my God dam day!!
    • Just My Two Cents (24/08/2015, 12:28) Like (8) Dislike (1) Reply
      Shaolin temple you need to be a comedian...too funny. Dont believe everything you see on TV
    • kung fu (24/08/2015, 14:01) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
      Lololol wow really thou?
    • Really? (24/08/2015, 15:51) Like (5) Dislike (0) Reply
      Stereotypes like that are racist.
    • lmao lmao (24/08/2015, 16:35) Like (8) Dislike (3) Reply

      I likey likey... (Be We I lander) if people could talk bull$&#t and bring NDP and VIP in something what aint got nothing to do with them why (Shaolin Temple) cant make his own statement.. he make my day... little joke is good for the soul....

    • Suk Chi Al Ni (24/08/2015, 20:41) Like (0) Dislike (2) Reply
      Naw Shaolin Temple, They are Tolians now, so instead of fighting, they wait until the robbery done to tell them what they would do if the robbers came when they were there.
  • sheer guyanese (24/08/2015, 10:47) Like (31) Dislike (6) Reply
    We used to hang out there and play our music but everybody were fussing, see what happened now?
    • stupid me (24/08/2015, 12:44) Like (5) Dislike (0) Reply
      security they did not have to pay for :)
    • hmmmmmm (24/08/2015, 14:49) Like (18) Dislike (6) Reply
      U playing music was never the issue u playing ur music to loud with tourist business near by n no one can tell u all nothing that was the issue
    • sboy (24/08/2015, 15:26) Like (5) Dislike (2) Reply

      i surprised you didn't say skkkou##tt bwoy aya guyanese love to say that

  • Guest (24/08/2015, 11:40) Like (28) Dislike (0) Reply
    let me see if i understood it correctly, the robbers entered the vicinity wearing mask.. and the third employee from outside thought they were customers?
    • Donald (24/08/2015, 12:30) Like (5) Dislike (1) Reply
      lol I here wondering the same thing... to me he saw what was going on and fright had him kudos to sue-yee that a brave thing she did
  • one day (24/08/2015, 11:48) Like (13) Dislike (0) Reply
    Can`t wait for someone to put those lazy heartless robbers on the ground breathless. One day. It will happen.
    • Jones (24/08/2015, 21:32) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      It did already, you forget? But yes a reminder needs to be sent out
    • shame.... (24/08/2015, 22:25) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
      The robbers have little reason to worry. That's what happens when the government disarms the law-abiding population - when seconds count, police are minutes away...
  • Scary Mary (24/08/2015, 13:00) Like (20) Dislike (0) Reply
    What a shame. These are hard working people and no matter what, Sue is always smiling and pleasant to her customers.

    These heartless thugs will get theirs. I am so sick of WORTHLESS idiots playing bad man up and down our streets, waving guns in people's faces. They need to get a job and WORK for a living instead of praying on hard working people who never did them anything! Of course, that is AFTER they spend time in prison for armed robbery, possession of an illegal weapon, possession of explosives and anything else they can be done for.

    Karma is tough boys and it is waiting for you right around the corner. You had better grow eyes in the back of your heads because you were spotted. You were seen. NASTY set of bad minded fools!
  • officer joe (24/08/2015, 13:40) Like (9) Dislike (11) Reply
    The police took ten minutes to get to an armed robbery scene within Road Town? Glad they were hurrying.
    Did they run out of donuts?
  • wize up (24/08/2015, 14:15) Like (17) Dislike (1) Reply
    I will continue to say; one area in this territory that should be safe is road town; there should be a presence of the police in the city during the night; during the day one can see 3 police officers walking side-by-side or 3 of them riding around in vehicles under the air-conditioning: come night time you can't see no police in the business area.....we can't hold this one against morris, he enjoying life in sunny Florida now: find another scape-goat and have the police walk the beat by day and by night
  • But wait (24/08/2015, 17:47) Like (1) Dislike (1) Reply
    police stop going on the beat??
  • qc (24/08/2015, 20:04) Like (3) Dislike (3) Reply
    Notes From A Native Son Of The Rock!
    Too Late! Too Late Is The Cry!
    Dr. Smith saying crime is down should be Fact Based and delivered following The Laws of Natural Justice!
  • oh skunt (24/08/2015, 20:05) Like (9) Dislike (7) Reply

    Sk$&t bai dem rob mi friend them. See if them had left we there to drink we beer and rum and listen to music d place wouldnt get rob...ohhh sk$&t

  • LIBRARIAN (24/08/2015, 20:15) Like (2) Dislike (6) Reply
    Wait, them man rob the guyanese embassy? All that cash an ain ask for a rough to go.
  • chad (24/08/2015, 20:23) Like (5) Dislike (5) Reply
    The NDP chickens are coming home to roost.
  • Guest (26/08/2015, 13:39) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    I don't think this will disappear as long as there are people who cradle them and turn a blind eye on their wrongdoings. The problem in the island is that even though they know a person is doing something wrong, they just keep quiet and pretend that it never happened. if ever something happened to these thugs, they are the first ones who will cry foul and act as a victim. I have seen several people who were almost described as saints even though their legal record doesn't say so..


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