YardFlex.com: 'Spice' Robbed by Armed Man in Apartment Complex

May 21, 2006

'Spice' Robbed by Armed Man in Apartment Complex

Valuables worth over $450,000 stolen

By: Claude Mills
Photo By Carlington Wilmot

Deejay Grace 'Spice' Hamilton was robbed on Saturday at about 2 a.m. by an armed man who broke into her Mannings Hill apartment through a window, and at gunpoint, made off with $150,000 in cash, five cellphones and jewellery valued at over $300,000.

According to Spice, the robber, who was dressed in full black and had a black towel over his head, was working with an accomplice who stood guard downstairs while he clambered up the steep wall to her second floor apartment.

"I was up talking with my aunt who is visiting from England, and then we fell asleep, leaving the lights and the TV on, and then I only heard a scream from my aunt, 'Gracie, Gracie, who is that? Who is that?'. I jumped up and I saw a man with a black towel over his face, in a full suit of black like a ninja and a walk like a crab," she told YardFlex.Com.

"Same time, mi start scream, and mi auntie a scream and him come over we wid him gun and say shut up, stop scream. That's when I realized that it was a gunman. Then him say 'don't move, whe de money deh? Don't move!' And mi look pon him and say how mi fi give yu the money if you tell me don't move? And him say O.K., gwaan fi the money," she told YardFlex.Com.

He then emptied the contents of her purse on the bed, and sifted through to find $150,000 in cash, and then he began searching her jewel box for other valuables.

Spice said that she kept her head during the robbery and even became the robber's 'personal assistant' of sorts, assisting him to sort through her possessions, and to carry armfuls of her expensive shoes.

"The man gone wid all mi shoes, all of them gone..he was there for a long time, and he got so much stuff...he had to make more than one trip downstairs where a car and his other friend was waiting. I thought about locking the door at one point but I didn't want to take any chances and then him shoot me over material possessions. I can work back that once I have my life, so I just allowed him to take whatever he needed, the only thing I resisted him on was when he wanted to rape me," she said.

"I am just grateful to be alive, I kept saying the Psalm, 'The Lord is my shepherd...' over and over again during the robbery, but I am glad that I did not panic and do anything stupid. When someone is robbing you, don't resist, just allow them to go with it, you can always work to buy back what was lost, but if you resist, and they kill you, what happens then?" she said.

The investigating officer at the Constant Spring police station confirmed that the robbery had indeed taken place, and that the police were pursuing a few good leads into the robbery.

Spice has joined a growing list of entertainers and celebrities who have been robbed in recent times including Gyptian, Assassin, and cricketer Wavell Hinds whose car was stolen at gunpoint a few weeks ago.

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