RCMP describe an attack and robbery on a 77-year-old man in Yarmouth County Thursday as “very disturbing.”
Corporal Dal Hutchinson tells Acadia News that at approximately 8 a.m. yesterday (Sept. 13) the victim was entering a barn on his property in Plymouth when he was grabbed from behind and dragged to his vehicle by two unknown men.
“The men forced the victim to hand over an undisclosed amount of money. The men, who wore black clothing including black face masks, then forced the victim to drive them to a nearby gravel pit where they took his cell phone, then threw his keys away.”
Hutchinson says the suspects walked away from the pit on foot and the victim sustained a minor injury to his face during the altercation.
The man found his keys and returned o his house and called 911.
The suspects also had a black backpack and one had a tattoo on his neck.
Officers have been canvassing the area and continue to look for the suspects, who remain at large.
Hutchinson says someone in the community may know something and they’re urging anyone with any information to contact them.
“We have an elderly man on his own property going about his daily routine.
To have these two individuals come there and assault him and basically abduct him and get his money and take him to a gravel pit and leave him on his own is very disturbing.”
In you have any information about this, you can contact Yarmouth Rural RCMP at 902-742-9106. (please quote File# 20181373198.)
If you want to remain anonymous call Nova Scotia Crime Stoppers toll free at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477), submit a secure web tip at www.crimestoppers.ns.ca, or use the P3 Tips App.