Waikato Snooker and Eight Ball Club robbery investigation underway – Snooker news
The investigations running on the robbery of Waikato Snooker and Eight Ball Club are now circling around the women who entered the club first to let her armed accomplices sneak into the area. The police are trying to identify the woman caught on a closed
circuit security camera.
The women with fair complexion, who seemed to belong to the Polynesian ethnic group of Môari or Moriori – geographically Oceanic, Pacific Islander or Austronesian, knocked on the club door on Sunday. She was plump faced, aged above twenty with sunglasses,
had dark long hair tied in a bun, wore a dark parka coat and black trousers with red coloured stripes. The sketch was described by Karl Thornton, Detective Senior Sergeant of Hamilton Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB), on the basis of footage and eyewitnesses.
He also described the two masked men carrying shot guns who came following her into the club. One of them, as Thornton sketched, carried a bag with black and blue colour having a red monogram. He put on a dark sweatshirt with hood and dark pants, coloured
striped white shoes and white gloves.
The third robber was a low-height possessing solid stature with light coloured shoes and socks, blue coloured trousers, black jacket over a white hood. He was also wearing a grey coloured bandanna and a dark baseball cap with white gloves.
Thornton thinks that the robbers may have sneaked into the bar with the help of the women who knocked on the bar door to get an entry. The police spoke to the 18 eyewitnesses, who were present in the club at the time the robbers came into the club, about
the outlook of the criminals and they are sure that if the women is identified, it will lead them to the core.
The police believe that the criminal trio escaped in a black vehicle, probably a hatchback car, and they have requested the public to contact them if they have seen the vehicle.
Waikato Snooker and Eight Ball Club is situated on Rostrevor Street, Hamilton, New Zealand. A woman knocked on the door to enter the bar and when she was allowed in, she deliberately stayed at the door and started to fiddle with her shoes. In the mean time,
two armed men followed her and entered the bar of the club.
They threatened the people present there and made them hostages and forced them to stay down on the ground. They were wearing balaclava masks. They asked for money to the patrons of the club. They grabbed the cash and escaped in a black vehicle, which might
be a hatchback as the police said.
Luckily, no one in the club was hurt but they all were terrified and threatened. The club members and patrons were horrified by the incident. The club was closed on Monday due to the dreadful incident. The club president, Bernie Endres, was relieved that
no one got hurt in the club during the incident.
CIB Hamilton has collected facts including CCTV footage and information from eyewitnesses. They are hopeful to catch the criminal trio soon but also have requested the public to co-operate in the investigations.
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