Stig Pedersen was attacked by six armed masked men at his home in Tierra Oscura at approximately 9 pm on June 21. He was struck in the head and driven off in his own boat a white T Top with “Puff” written on the bow. The boat has a 75 HP four stroke outboard.
Gary Pope notified the Bocas police who responded that a report had to be made in person. The boat ride from Tierra Oscura to Bocas town is about half an hour to forty five minutes.
The police located Stig in his boat at Piti Creek and transported him to to the hospital in Almirante and soon joined by his wife and mother in law. He was subsequently transferred to a hospital in David by ambulance.
Stig had notified friends before the incident that one his neighbors had threatened to kill him in retalation for denuncias Stig had filed which had resulted in the incarceration of the neighbor.
As of the time of this writing, 9:38 AM, Monday June 23 there is an effort underway to obtain six pints of Type A RH positive blood in order that he may undergo surgery.
Two suspects have been apprehended.
Right now they are preparing Stig for the transfer to hospital Chiriqui. He cannot move one side of his body and has some smaller and one bigger blood clots in his brain. To operate him serveral specialists have to be at there during the operation, Stig is talking but it is difficult to understand him. We need 6 pints of blood type A positive. and a lot of positive energy.
I spoke to Maribel.
She only could identify one of the people who attacked Stig. They did not harm her as they told her she is Panamanian and therefore has nothing to do with this it. The attack was planned for Stig. The took a lot of money and cards. There was money taken out of the account yesterday, now let us hope the bank had a camera in the ATM machine. All credit cards were canceled yesterday, but Stigs account with Banco Scotia was only closed this morning. Maribel said that she did not see the neighbor but that he told her Dad once that he wants to hurt Stig.