Repeat Offender Jailed for 2022 Web Shop Robbery

NASSAU, BAHAMAS – A repeat offender has been jailed for 14 years for robbing a web shop at gunpoint in 2022.

Justice Neil Brathwaite handed down the stiff sentence to Troy Rolle after taking his criminal history into account.

Noting the 29-year-old’s previous convictions for stealing and receiving, Justice Brathwaite said that Rolle’s crimes had escalated and he had “resolutely refused to retreat from criminal behavior.”

On October 9, 2022, two masked gunmen robbed the cashier of Percy’s Island Game on Wulff Road of a deposit bag containing more than $5,000.

The robbers arrived in a white car and fled the scene in the same vehicle, which was registered to Rolle’s girlfriend.

The girlfriend testified that Rolle had her vehicle during the relevant time and picked her up from work later that night.

Rolle will receive credit for the 12 months he spent on remand. The sentence takes effect from June 6, 2024, the date of conviction.