MANCHESTER, Jamaica — Police are probing an armed robbery and abduction in the community of New Forest in southern Manchester on Thursday night which subsequently led to a stolen car being recovered in Nain, St Elizabeth.

The owner of the vehicle who asked not to be named told OBSERVER ONLINE on Friday that he was visiting his 80 odd year-old grandmother about 9:45 pm when a gunman pounced and held him and his relatives at gunpoint on their veranda.

“Mi just hear a click and the [gunman] seh ‘don’t move!’. Then him tell mi fi guh inside the house,” he explained.

He said the gunman demanded the keys to his Honda Fit motorcar and abducted his grandmother’s helper at gunpoint.

The helper was reportedly forced into the stolen car before being later freed near the Mountpelier housing scheme, four miles north of New Forest.

The distraught man quickly alerted his friends and colleagues through social media that his car had been stolen.

He said he received information on Friday morning that his car was spotted in Nain in the neighbouring parish of St Elizabeth.

He believes there was an attempt to remove the stereo system in his car and said the vehicle has minor damages to the bumper lip.

He criticised the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) for what he described as unnecessary bureaucracy in applying for a firearm.

“They have Jamaican citizens a run up and down like a rabbit, because FLA feel to seh we want gun fi guh kill baby mother and wife… Give we a chance fi protect we self. Police can’t be everywhere,” he said.

Kasey Williams