Man Arrested Following Wounding Incident in West Bay

19 July 2021, 08:29 AM

Police/Court

Shortly after 7:00PM 15 July, officers responded to a report of a wounding at an address on Powell Smith Road, West Bay. It was reported that two men known to each other had been involved in an altercation which resulted in one of the men wounding the other with a knife.

Emergency services attended the scene and the wounded man was transported to the Cayman Islands Hospital to be treated for what appear to be non-life-threatening injuries.

Officers detained the other man and conducted a search of the address. A quantity of suspected ganja was recovered during the search. The man, age 27 of West Bay, was arrested on suspicion of assault GBH and possession and consumption of ganja. He has been granted bail as investigations continue.