There was one reported sexual assault, one reported attempted sexual assault and a report of a prowler (suspicious circumstances) over the weekend.
At 5:30pm on Sunday, Police attended a reported road traffic collision resulting in injury on Church Street in Pembroke near the junction with Parliament Street involving a motorcycle and a pedestrian.
The Bermuda Police Service is currently conducting inquiries into a series of sexual assaults in Southampton, Warwick and Paget which we believe may be linked. In the past several months, women have reported to the Police that they have been awoken during the early morning hours by a male who has assaulted them.
The following represents the comments of the Commissioner of Police for use at the regular Quarterly Crime Statistics Release Press Conference of the Bermuda Police Service.
Summary:
Total for the Quarter = 705
Third Quarter Comparison:
The Bermuda Police Service is asking for the public's assistance in locating 14 year old Geisha Saltus of Devonshire. She was reported missing at 10am today and was last seen leaving Cedarbridge Academy around 3:30pm on Monday wearing casual clothes. Anyone with any information on the whereabouts of 14 year old Geisha Saltus is asked to contact the Juvenile & Domestic Crime Unit on 295-0011.
Police are continuing to appeal for witnesses to a disturbance that took place around 5:30pm Saturday, October 15, 2005 on Court Street near the junction with Angle Street in Pembroke. The victim, a 33 year old Paget man, was attacked with a machete and sustained serious lacerations to his hands, forearms and head.
At 12:35pm today, Police attended a WB's Way, Hamilton parish residence and arrested a 37 year old Pembroke man wanted in connection with a disturbance that occurred around 5:30pm Saturday on Court Street near the junction with Angle Street in Pembroke. The Pembroke man was taken into custody without incident and is expected to appear before the courts in due course.
The Bermuda Police Service is aware of an increased amount of forged BDA $100 notes in circulation on the island.