Police yesterday captured two people suspected of being involved in a string of recent armed robberies in south-western New Providence after a high-speed chase ended on Cowpen Road.
Police said the chase began around 3:30 p.m. when a grey Nissan Altima, which fit the description of a vehicle involved in a number of armed robberies in the area, was spotted in the vicinity of the Carmichael Road Detention Centre.
Police Constable 3353 Brown, a mobile officer, said he was one of the first officers to respond to the call to apprehend the suspects.
"We pulled just to the rear of the vehicle, at which point the two occupants (a man and a woman) sped off in a southern direction headed onto Cowpen Road," Brown said.  "The vehicle came to a rest just east of Golden Isles Road."
Footage of the crash captured by security cameras at Mac Stop and Shop convenience store in Bettidel's Plaza on Cowpen Road, showed that the car barreled through the chain link fence of a building next door to the plaza.
After the crash, the unarmed man who was driving tried to get out of the car, but found that the door on the driver's side was blocked.  He exited the car by crawling over the woman in the passenger seat.  However, he was too dazed and police were too quick for him to make it very far.
Officers had their guns drawn on the man and woman within seconds.
The woman, who appeared unhurt, was forced to exit the car at gunpoint.  She was placed in a squad car and taken in for questioning.  The man was taken to the hospital via ambulance.

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