HUGH DILLON, a 24-year-old recruit at the Police Academy in Spanish Town, St. Catherine, was abducted Saturday night and robbed of $7,000 and a new shirt. He was later taken to premises on Deanery Road in Kingston, where he was found handcuffed to a tree.
The recruit, who lives in Portland and got enlisted at the Police Academy two months ago, was rescued early Sunday morning.
Reports are that a police patrol got word of the abduction and picked up the recruit's trail, which led them to the premises.
Mr. Dillon's brush with his abductors occurred around 8:30 p.m. while on his way from the Caribbean Institute of Business on Oxford Road in St. Andrew. He was attacked by three men in a white Toyota Corolla at the intersection of Norwood and Oxford roads.
The incident occurred on the heels of last Thursday's high drama in Bunkers Hill, Claren-don, where an elderly man and his two teenage children were abducted at gunpoint and taken to premises near Red Hills Road, St. Andrew. They were rescued by a team of police from the St. Andrew North Division. Two men who were caught with two illegal guns, guarding the victims at the house, have since been arrested and charged.
