Man and Woman Charged with Armed Robbery

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NASSAU, BAHAMAS – A man and a woman were charged, Thursday, with armed robbery in connection with the hold-up of a shopkeeper.

Mark Rolle Jr, 24, and Danella Knowles, 23, are charged with the July 22 armed robbery of Vashti Glinton.

They are also charged with conspiracy to commit armed robbery.

According to prosecutors, Glinton was accosted by gunmen around 6:20am when she went to open the Coral Harbour Food Store.

The robbers took $700 before they forced her into her 2007 Ford F-150 truck and drove her to the well fields.

There, they made her sign a company cheque for $3,000 before they tied her up and drove off in her truck.

Police arrested Knowles later that day when she tried to cash the stolen check.

Knowles is charged with receiving stolen property.

She also faces charges of possession of a forged document, uttering a forged document attempted fraud by false pretenses in relation to her attempt to cash the cheque.

Rolle and Knowles were not required to enter pleas to the charges when they appeared before Magistrate Samuel McKinney.

They were denied bail and will return to court on October 4 to receive a voluntary bill of indictment that will send their case to the Supreme Court for trial.