“Police can’t lock us up because we is juveniles” – NA resident told by B&E teens

Mount Sinai, which is a suburb situated on the fringes of New Amsterdam and popularly referred to as Angoy’s Avenue, is been plagued by a series of home break-ins.
There are reports that the acts are being perpetrated by young teenagers.
Mount Sinai is said to have more than 5000 residents and while development is taking place in that community at a fast rate, worrying to those residents is the frequency of home breaking and entering.
Many say there is a teenage gang that is responsible for many of them. Gang members they say are all under the age of 15.
“They are all under age and they are going around telling people, ‘police can’t lock us up because we is juveniles,” one resident told this publication.
Denis Robertson, 81, who lives at Lot 1126 Broad Street, Mount Sinai said he is a victim of the juvenile bandit trio.
Apart from the fact that the three persons were young teenagers, Robertson has expressed concern at the way the matter is being addressed – a concern expressed by several residents.

Robertson said it on June 18, at about 03:30h he was sitting watching television when he was distracted by a strange sound.
“And I turned to see what caused the noise, three youths came through the window one after the other, held me down in the chair, and started beating me all in my head and my face. They gave me a cut in my head and over my eyes and a few bruises about my body.”
He said he was also hit in his head with a piece of wood and during the struggle a bench fell which alerted his wife 74-year-old who came out to see what was happening.
“They turned and she recognized two out of the three of them. She did not recognize the third one because when she called out he started to jump through the window, so she only saw the back of him. The other two were struggling to get through the window at the same time. One got through and the other one turned and looked at her and she called him by name… She tried to scramble his foot and I tried to help her but I couldn’t do anything because I was dazed,” he explained while noting that the third intruder was able to escape.
A report was subsequently made to Central Police Station.
According to the pensioner, the police never visited the scene.
“They just took my report and they said they are going to look for the boys.”
One of the three was picked up by the police and reportedly told investigators the names of his two accomplices.

“They are all underaged boys one is only about 13 or 14,” Robertson revealed.
“I want to know what juveniles are doing on the road at 3:30 in the morning.”
This he said shows a lack of parental control.
“So far its more than three weeks and I haven’t heard anything more from the police,” Robinson noted.
“I am bargaining to lose faith in the police in this town,” he added.
Meanwhile, another resident showed broken windows saying that the evidence is still there where the juveniles used to go into her son’s house.
Residents are advocating for a police outpost in Mount Sinai.
Police Commissioner Clifton Hicken while Commander of the then ‘B’ Division, shortly after taking up the appointment in September 2018, visited Mount Sinai where he made several promises to residents including that of setting up a police outpost in the community.
“Police on motorbikes will visit the area on a regular basis and the patrol will make more checks in this area,” he told residents as the Commander back then.
Following that a container was taken to the community with plans of having it modified to facilitate a police outpost but nothing has happened in that regard since then. In fact, the container was destroyed over time. (G4)