Last night we told you about the brazen robbery on New Road. Yesterday around 2:00, one of the family owners of the very popular Pou Meatpie, Maria Pou
went across the street to collect $500 dollars from a tenant. That's when a man hugged her from behind and then grabbed on to the bag of money. But she
put up a fight, and he threw her to ground and dragged her as she clutched unto the money. The robber then ran into the Jungle area off Pickstock
Street where a getaway car was waiting. It was a very frightening experience for Pau and today she told us off camera that she is just grateful to be
alive.
Maria Pau - Owner, Pau Meatpie
"It never really happened during business time, it happened after 2. I went to do a small errand for someone and unfortunately I was at the wrong place
at the wrong time and I got robbed. The good thing of it, the police was right down the street and they picked me up and took me to the emergency. I am
very grateful to both the police and the staff of the emergency and the x-ray department and I was out of there by 5 o'clock and I'm alive and well and
for that I am very thankful. I thank all the customers who called in and I thank..."
Courtney Weatherburne
"Ma'am I know you don't really want to relive the experience from yesterday but tell us; you were standing right over there when a guy came and hug
you."
Maria Pau - Owner, Pau Meatpie
"Yes, the person hug me from back on, I never expect it so I can't say anything else, that's it."
Courtney Weatherburne
"So he hugged you and then you thought it was just somebody you knew and then that is when he grabbed."
Maria Pau - Owner, Pau Meatpie
"Yes unfortunately I stupidly had some money in my hand which was mine, I never anticipated it. I thought it was a friend when I realised what the
person was after, well I just let it go. We need to be more cautious in this time because things out there are really bad, the economy is pretty bad
and we just have to exert more care and common sense which I unfortunately I never exert. But I'm thankful to be alive."
When we spoke to police this evening they told us one man has been detained and should be charged later tonight.
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