On Friday night around 20:45 (8:45 p.m.) a man entered the Chinese take-away restaurant at the Sikkelstraat in Rotterdam (Netherlands) and used a gun to threaten the personnel. The robber left with an unknown amount of money. The police of the district Feijenoord-Ridderster started an investigation.
Police officers have started a neighborhood search and a forensic investigation team are looking for traces the robber might left behind.
Bron: www.regionieuws.nl [27-12-2008]
The cashier at Congee Wong Restaurant carefully eyes every person who walks in.
The Richmond Hill business, squished into a strip plaza just off Highway 7, was robbed in October. In November, the same bandits came back for seconds.
In both incidents, three men rushed into the restaurant, their faces covered with bandanas and hoods. Threatening the staff and the diners with guns and knives, the thieves snatched the cash from the register before running off.
The holdups are a part of a rash of robberies targeting Chinese restaurants. Police say a group of thieves is behind seven robberies in Markham and Richmond Hill since August, and a handful more in northern Scarborough.
Most of the targeted eateries have signs attached to their windows advertising that they’re “cash only.”
“It’s an invitation to robbers,” said York Region Police Chief Armand La Barge.
La Barge and fellow police brass met with members of the Richmond Hill and Markham Chinese Business Association on Thursday to discuss ways to tackle the problem.
Officers have visited scores of local Chinese restaurants over the past few weeks, talking with owners and making recommendations on how to prevent a holdup: invest in credit card machines, don’t leave the back door unlocked, maintain and test surveillance cameras.
Yet some of the restaurants have taken more drastic measures, said Jane Ng, general manager of the business association.
Emperor Fine Cuisine, which was robbed Dec. 4, has a buzzer. Patrons have to be vetted through the glass before they can enter.
Meanwhile, Ng said she knows of a Woodbine Ave. restaurant that didn’t report a robbery to police, and suspects there are more. “They don’t report, to prevent future revenge from the robbers,” she said. Others are afraid the news will scare off clientele.
bron: www.thestar.com [11-12-2009]
Four people face 200 charges in a series of Chinese-restaurant robberies in the Greater Toronto Area, police announced today.
Since June 17, authorities allege, three men and one youth targeted nearly a dozen Chinese restaurants and a bank. The accused allegedly assaulted the employees and customers, robbing them of cash and personal property.
Yesterday, the Toronto police hold-up squad, working with York Regional Police, executed warrants at five Toronto homes and for two vehicles, during which they reportedly seized a sawed-off shotgun, ammunition, a replica handgun, a knife and a quantity of cash.
Jordan Wilson, 19; Gary Hanson, 20; Raseedi McKenley, 25; and a 16-year-old boy, whose name cannot be released under the provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, face a total of 200 charges, including robbery, firearms and property-related offences. They are scheduled to appear at the Old City Hall courthouse tomorrow morning.
bron: network.nationalpost.com [11-12-2009]
In America: Two men robbed a Chinese restaurant and escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash Thursday night, Fairfield police said.
The men entered Frank and Yuens Chinese Restaurant at 1955 W. Texas St. around 9:30 p.m., police said. Employees and patrons were ordered to get on the ground. The robbers, one of whom was armed, took cash from the register, Sgt. Daniel Marshall said. The robbers then confronted an employee in the back kitchen area.
The armed robber fired a shot from a black, semi-automatic handgun in the employee’s direction, Marshall said. The employee was not injured.The robbers were last seen heading north away from the restaurant.
The armed robber was described as 5 feet 6 inches tall and about 180 pounds. He was wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt and black pants. He had a black mask around his mouth and was carrying a red backpack, police said.Witnesses did not give a description of the second robber.
bron: www.kcra.com [14-12-2009]
Three members of a Chinese-Filipino family, including an elderly woman, aboard a van were shot and injured by motorcycle-riding men who robbed them Sunday morning at a stoplight of an intersection along the Roxas Boulevard Service Road in Paranaque City.
The driver and head of the family, Ruben Chua, 44, of 12th Street, New Manila, Quezon City, although wounded in the back, managed to drive from Parañaque City to Manila, to bring his wounded 41-year-old wife Joslyn, and mother-in-law Clarita Jo, 69, to a hospital. Only 13-year-old Denzel Chua escaped from the shooting unscathed.
Manila Police District (MPD) Ermita Station 5 operatives immediately responded to the scene when Chua’s red Toyota Lite-Ace GXL van (UFK-695) crashed into a tree near the Manila Diamond Hotel at the corner of Roxas Boulevard and Dr. J. Quintos Street in Malate.
In his report, SPO1 Reynaldo Ferrer of the MPD station 5 said that the Chuas were attacked at around 8:30 a.m. on Sunday, several minutes after the Chua couple fetched their 13-year-old son and his 69-year-old grandmother from the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA).
Ferrer said that when the Toyota Lite-Ace stopped for a red light at an intersection along the Roxas Boulevard Service Road, two motorcycle-riding men armed with 9mm pistols approached the van on the two sides and ordered the passengers to open the doors.
When Chua refused to give in to the demand, the man near him started to fire shots at him and the van’s occupants. Chua was hit in the back when he protected his son with his body. His wife sustained a bullet wound in the right foot, while Jo was shot in the left foot. The teenager, who was seated in the front passenger seat, was spared from the hail of bullets let loose by the suspects.
The robbers then forced open the van, divested the injured passengers of their belongings, and fled with the loot aboard their motorcycle.
Although injured, Chua drove the van to the Manila Doctors’ Hospital through Roxas Boulevard. But upon reaching the corner of Roxas Boulevard and Quintos Street, Chua fainted from loss of blood causing the van to swerve and crash into a tree.
Manila Diamond Hotel security guard Randy Gallardo saw the crash and immediately sought police assistance after which he and taxi driver Edgar Urata brought the victims to the Ospital ng Maynila.
The case investigator said that the wounded women were treated at the hospital while Chua was later transferred to the Metropolitan Hospital for surgery.
Ferrer revealed that taken from Chua was an undetermined amount of cash. His wife lost a Nine West bag containing US$700; P8,000, two passports, a mobile phone, and credit cards. The robbers also stole a Nine West bag from Jo, containing P10,000 in cash, a mobile phone and several credit cards.
The case was turned over to the Parañaque City police for investigation and the conduct of follow-up operations against the robbers.
bron: newsinfo.inquirer.net [1-11-2009]
A deliveryman was robbed of $400 at gunpoint Thursday evening while delivering food to the Midview Crossing apartments in the 1800 block of Middle Ave.
China Wok took a food order around 6:15 p.m. for an apartment in M building, but when the 38-year-old deliveryman arrived, he was confronted by three men wearing black coats and stocking caps, police said.
Deliveryman Ai Qiu Lin told police one of the males pointed a black handgun at him and demanded his money. Lin gave the robbers $400 and ran from the area.
The deliveryman told security at the front gate what had happened. The guard at the complex told police he spotted a 17-year-old girl, often mistaken for a male because of her short hair, wearing a black coat and black stocking cap just after the incident near M building.
The security guard told police the girl and an unknown male jumped the fence and ran away when they spotted him.
bron: chronicle.northcoastnow.com [14-11-2009]
Armed robbers assaulted a Chinese company here Thursday, fleeing with cash and laptops worth 50,000 U.S. dollars, Chinese consulate officials said Friday.
round 9:30 p.m. local time (1930GMT) Thursday, five armed men broke into the company’s house in northern Johannesburg, said Zuo Baoliang, consul from Chinese Consulate General in Johannesburg.
The company, Kunsan Tongyou Electric Lift Company, started doing lift installation business in South Africa this March. It has about 36 Chinese staffs.
The 28 Chinese staffs in the house were threatened by guns and tied up during the robbery.
Local police is investigating the case. However, no arrests have been made yet.
Lou Xiandi, police attache of the Chinese Embassy in South Africa, urged all Chinese in South Africa to be vigilant and take adequate measures to protect themselves and their properties.
bron: www.chinadaily.com.cn [29-8-2009]
Two Chinese tourists, who decided to stop over at Rizal Park before their flight back to Macau, were victimized Sunday afternoon by suspected members of the so-called Ativan Gang in Manila.
Chinese women Qijie Wen and Huang Qin, both 29, of Shanghai, China, lost P77,000—most of the amount charged to a credit card—and a notebook containing personal information, were reportedly stolen by a Chinese-looking couple whom they mistakenly trusted.
PO2 Reginald Delos Reyes of the Manila Police District General Assignment Section (MPD-GAS) said that the Chinese tourists arrived in the country on Sept. 27 from Macau and went to Busuanga Island in Palawan.
Delos Reyes revealed that the women, on Sunday, decided to drop by Rizal Park in Ermita, Manila to see the monument before they take the night flight back home.
The Chinese tourists met the couple at around 2:35 p.m. somewhere inside the park, where their acquaintances served as their guides and even brought them to a church.
The case investigator said that after a brief tour, the Chinese-looking couple invited the women to have snacks. It was after consuming the food and drinks that the tourists started to feel dizzy.
“All they (tourists) remembered was that the suspects flagged down a taxi and (sent them) on their way to the airport for their flight back to Macau, but they were late for the flight,” Delos Reyes pointed out.
It was when the dizziness subsided that Qijie received a text message from the China Merchant Bank informing her that she had accumulated a credit on her card of P76,000. She claimed she knew nothing about the expense and told the case investigator that the couple could have taken her credit card while she was dizzy.
The thieves took P1,000 cash and a notebook containing personal information from Huang.
MPD-GAS operatives are conducting follow-up operations for the arrest of the criminals and the possible recovery of the stolen items.
bron: newsinfo.inquirer.net [11-10-2009]
Friday night, nearing Saturday morning, a robbery took place on the Tourtonnelaan, near Suristore in Paramaribo, which ended up in the victim being killed. The Chinese man was shot a couple of times just before he about to enter his vehicle. The culprits, three men of supposedly Boslandcreoolish background, had an escape car ready and fled with a bag filled with baby necessities. The robbers supposedly thought that there was money in the bag. On the way to the hospital the man died.
Thursday night there was an attempted robbery on a Chinese shopkeeper on the corner of PT. Paltan Tewarieweg and Botromankiweg, near the Eddy Blackmanstation. Two young men stepped in the shop during the evening hours. They bought a pack of cigarettes and walked outside. They immediately returned with a hammer. They attacked the shopkeeper with it. After striking him a few times they tried to open the cash till. This was harder than they thought, and when people outside the shop noticed what was going on, the robbers quickly fled. Security camera filmed this entire ordeal.
Bron: www.dbsuriname.com [30-11-2009]
This evening police are looking for a group of armed gunmen who robbed a Chinese Store on Vasquez Avenue. It happened sometime after 5:00 pm today and details are not known – but what we do know is that police responded and set chase after a car matching the description of the one that was used as the getaway car.
Late this evening, police were searching a red Toyota Corolla on Magazine Road as a possible suspect car. While we were there nothing of note was found but late reports say police found a home-made firearm inside. We’ll have more details on the robbery on Monday.
bron: 7newsbelize.com [20-11-2009]
