And even with those busts…it's not like a cure-all for crime…proved this afternoon when there was an armed holdup of a southside business establishment. It left two employees so badly shaken-up, that one of them is said to have abandoned the job immediately after the robbery took place.
Three armed men are said to have stormed the Plastic Packaging Supplies company, located at number 4 Tigris street, and ransacked it looking for any and everything that was of value.
When 7 News arrived on the scene, the Police were already taking statements from one of the two traumatized employees, along with the usual dusting for fingerprints.
Two security-cameras located on opposite ends of the building are said to have captured the events leading up to the robbery, and, the Police were awaiting the arrival of a video technician to replay what was captured by those cameras. While the two employees working at the time of the holdup were terrorized, none is said to have been physically injured. At press time, it's not known what if anything was stolen. According to the owner, today's holdup makes is the third in its forty year history.
