THE timely report of a robbery at a dwelling house at Soesdyke/Linden Highway resulted in police nabbing one of the two men suspected of perpetrating the crime.

Police reported that about 02:00 hours the victim, Wilson Bacchus, 54, a painter, was attacked and robbed at his home by two men armed with a handgun and a knife.

Wilson Bacchus and his family were asleep when they were aroused by a noise in his home. On checking, he was confronted by the two robbers who held him up and took away an undisclosed sum of cash and a quantity of jewellery and escaped, Police said.

Bacchus immediately reported the matter to the police who promptly responded and subsequently arrested three men who were found in the village.

Police added that one of the men was found with three rounds .22 ammunition and his accomplices have been identified as the perpetrators of the robbery. Jewellery and cash believed to be part of the articles stolen were recovered.

Police pointed out that in this instance the quick reporting of the incident by Wilson Bacchus enabled the police in their response to nab one of the suspects, unlike the armed robbery committed on two employees of a city store on Tuesday last where the victims returned to their place of employment and reported the matter to a senior supervisor before reporting the robbery to the police some time after, resulting in valuable time being lost.

The police are calling on members of the public to report incidents as quickly as possible to the police as the time factor is crucial to the response and investigations by the police.