EAST END, St. Croix — Police are investigating an armed robbery that took place near a condominium complex and popular bar and restaurant in Estate Southgate on Sunday night.
A masked gunman held up a woman outside of Southgate Courtyard Villas next door to Cheeseburger in Paradise about 8:51 p.m. on Sunday, the Virgin Islands Police Department said.
The woman’s cell was during taken during the robbery in which the man brandished a handgun, VIPD spokesman Glen Dratte said.
The woman told police the gunman fled the area on foot after the robbery, Dratte said.
Police reported that the victim was uninjured during the armed robbery and at first did not want to report the incident to authorities.