Par­tic­u­lars for de­ten­tion or­der ob­tained by the T&T Guardian re­gard­ing a plot to desta­bilise Trinidad and To­ba­go and cause ma­jor pan­ic:On Oc­to­ber 28, 2011 an of­fi­cer of the Spe­cial Branch Unit of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice re­ceived cred­i­ble in­for­ma­tion from a con­fi­den­tial in­for­mant that there was be­ing planned a plot to desta­bilise Trinidad and To­ba­go and cause ma­jor pan­ic and that the de­tainee was the mas­ter­mind be­hind the plot.

The in­for­ma­tion from the said con­fi­den­tial in­for­mant was that the de­tainee was the leader of a ex­trem­ist Is­lam­ic group which meets at Ch­agua­nas and that the de­tainee reg­u­lar­ly es­pous­es ex­trem­ist and rad­i­cal Is­lam­ic be­liefs at these masjids.The said con­fi­den­tial in­for­mant al­so said the de­tainee had re­cruit­ed mem­bers of his re­li­gious group to car­ry out the de­tainee's plan to desta­bilise Trinidad and To­ba­go.

On Sep­tem­ber 18, 2011, three men, all be­lieved to be mem­bers of the de­tainee's rad­i­cal Is­lam­ic group, were ar­rest­ed at Waller­field, af­ter a pe­ri­od of sur­veil­lance con­duct­ed by mem­bers of the Crim­i­nal In­tel­li­gence Unit (CIU).Up­on the ar­rest of cer­tain peo­ple the fol­low­ing items were seized by the po­lice:

• One Glock 17 pis­tol;

• 30 rounds of 0.40 mm am­mu­ni­tion;

• 24 rounds of 9mm am­mu­ni­tion;

• 10 rounds of 9mm am­mu­ni­tion;

• six firearm mag­a­zines;

• one ri­fle firearm, with scope;

• two bul­let­proof vests;

• two po­lice vel­cro patch­es;

• one blue sweater, re­sem­bling that used by mem­bers of the Guard and Emer­gency Branch;

• Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force cam­ou­flage jack­et and pants;

• two stolen ve­hi­cles; and

n one com­put­er, on which was stored an­ti-ter­ror­ist and weapon-train­ing ma­te­r­i­al, orig­i­nat­ing from the Unit­ed States' Fed­er­al Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions and Spe­cial Air Ser­vices

In­for­ma­tion re­ceived from the said con­fi­den­tial source was that a de­tainee was re­spon­si­ble for pur­chas­ing am­mu­ni­tion for the said plot.In 2010, the de­tainee was ar­rest­ed and charged with pos­ses­sion of more than 1,000 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion af­ter said am­mu­ni­tion was found at his home along with a num­ber of high-pow­ered ri­fles, in­clud­ing AK47 as­sault ri­fles and a large quan­ti­ty of nar­cotics.

In­tel­li­gence re­ceived has linked the de­tainee to the im­por­ta­tion of so­phis­ti­cat­ed weapons that were ca­pa­ble of long-range as­sas­si­na­tions and to­geth­er a cen­tral busi­ness­man whose home was searched and a large cache of high-pow­ered ri­fles were re­cent­ly found, is sus­pect­ed in the im­por­ta­tion of such weapons. The par­tic­u­lars of the de­ten­tion or­ders were pre­pared by Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter John Sandy.

In the re­port Sandy wrote: "In the light of the in­for­ma­tion from the po­lice and the an­tecedent ac­tiv­i­ties of the de­tainee and his known as­so­ciates, I have formed the opin­ion that there is a re­al threat to pub­lic safe­ty and pub­lic or­der in Trinidad and To­ba­go and that the de­tainee must be de­tained to pre­vent him from in­dulging in ac­tiv­i­ties prej­u­di­cial to such pub­lic safe­ty and pub­lic or­der."