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Mother And Family Car Jacked At Speedbump in Armenia Village
posted (January 8, 2016)
All this afternoon, Belmopan Investigators were out in Armenia Village following up on leads involving a crazy car jacking which happened last week Saturday.

38 year-old Melonie Popper Coc, a Puma Energy employee reported to police that at around 7:15 p.m. on Saturday, January 2, she was driving her company vehicle, a grey Isuzu D-max pickup truck, along with her mother, and her 4 children. They were heading to Pomona Village, and when they arrived at the second bump in Armenia Village, which is 8 miles south of Belmopan on the Hummingbird Highway, she received a phone call.

She told police that she stopped the vehicle and pulled off the road to answer the phone. While she was speaking with the caller, a man snuck up on her, and took away the cellphone at gunpoint. She reported that she looked over to the vehicle, and that's when she saw that her entire family had been removed from the vehicle by another car jacker. They ordered her out of the car, too, and then both men sped off towards Belmopan.

They left an entire family stranded on the road, and along with the $12,000 truck, they got away with her purse which had 12 hundred dollars cash, 2 cellular phones, a tablet, and an assortment of items belonging to her children to a total value of almost 17 thousand dollars.

Police haven't made any arrests.

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