Well known local comedian Linden ‘Jumbie’ Jones and his wife Maria Benschop were, in the wee hours of yesterday morning, robbed of over $250,000 in cash and items by an armed gunman and accomplice at their West Ruimveldt home, two houses away from the West Ruimveldt Police Station.
The incident occurred sometime around 1:30 am as Benschop was returning home. Her husband, Jones, spoke to this newspaper as the woman was too traumatized to speak. He recalled that his wife had driven up to the house, opened the gate, parked the car and was returning to close the gate when the two men, one armed with a gun and masked approached her. He said that the gun-toting bandit placed the gun to her head and instructed her not to make a sound otherwise they would shoot her in
