September 5, 2005 will mark the second anniversary of Hurricane Fabian and the tragic loss of Police officers Stephen Symons and Nicole O'Connor, Station Duty Officer Gladys Saunders and Corporation of Hamilton worker Manuel Pacheco.
The Bermuda Police Service can now confirm the death of 48 year old Louis Robert Barry of Maryland, U.S.A. was as a result of natural causes. Mr. Barry was found in an unresponsive state around 12:35pm on Thursday in a room at a Southampton guest property. The Bermuda Police Service extends its sincere condolences to the family of the deceased.
Around 11:05 this morning, Police attended a reported road traffic collision resulting in injury on Church Street near the junction with Wesley Street in the City of Hamilton, involving a car and a pedestrian. It appears that the car, a black Toyota Corolla, was turning west on to Church Street when it collided with a pedestrian on the pedestrian crossing. As a result the car sustained front end damage.
Around 12:40am on Sunday, a Police Support Unit (PSU) on mobile patrol attended Fentons Drive in Pembroke. The officers arrested an 18 year old Pembroke woman for an outstanding warrant and searched the basket of the motorcycle she was sitting on. The basket contained a sizeable quantity of what is believed to be controlled drugs, which were seized.
The Bermuda Police Service is aware of recent incidents where four wheeled vehicles were removed from garages and thefts from unattended/unlocked vehicles took place, particularly in the Addendum Lane, Pembroke area.
At 8:30 this morning, Police attended a report of a medical emergency at the junction of Court Street and Elliot Street in Pembroke. The victim, a 68 year old Pembroke man, was found at his Elliot Street residence lying in bed in an unresponsive state and was later pronounced dead at the scene by an on call physician. Foul play has not been ruled out.
It has recently been brought to the attention of the Bermuda Police Service (BPS), the developing and dangerous trend of persons projecting fiery streams from various aerosol cans or other apparatus at public events, indoors and outdoors. The BPS is concerned about such practices posing a real threat to public safety.