THE police have confirmed that another person has been brought in for questioning in relation to the brazen daylight attack on a Beryllium security team in last month’s multimillion-dollar robbery in Portmore, St Catherine.

Deputy commissioner of police in charge of crime and security Fitz Bailey told the Jamaica Observer on Wednesday that the individual, who is an employee of Beryllium, was nabbed in St Ann on Wednesday with $500,000 in cash.

This brings to seven the number of persons who have been taken into custody in relation to that incident. Of the six previously held, one man is facing 12 charges resulting from the Sunday, March 19 attack on the security team at Scotiabank’s Portmore branch.

The security company’s crew came under heavy gunfire while they were about to go and service the automated banking machines. The robbers made off with more than $23 million.

DCP Bailey stressed that the police are using all its investigative skills and techniques and other resources available to ensure that those who are involved are brought to justice.

“We also seek to apply all the relevant laws including the Proceeds of Crime Act wherever applicable and where assets are identified, we will apply the aspects of the law to seize those assets,” he said.

Bailey said the police are still appealing to the public to pass on whatever information they may have that could assist in the investigation.

“The JCF will continue to use all its resources including the support of our international partners to identify organised crime groups and ensure that the full force of the law is applied where necessary,” the deputy commissioner of police added.

At a digital press conference from police headquarters on Tuesday, Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson had said that the JCF is moving to clamp down on the spate of attacks that have been launched on cash-heavy sources such as ATMs and courier services in recent months.

Anderson said with the long arm of the law shutting off sources of funding, criminals have been turning to major cash-ready sources such as ATMs and courier services.

“We are seeing gangs turn to robberies of high cash amounts to fund their illicit activities, as law enforcement impact their various sources of income. ATMs, business persons handling and transporting high amounts of cash and armoured courier services have been the main target,” he said, noting the heightened apprehension among citizens with the recent Beryllium Limited robberies in Portmore.