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Saturday, May 3, 2025

Cops bust human trafficking ring in South

1 Syr­i­an man, 3 male Tri­nis de­tained

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20151017

In a mas­sive bust yes­ter­day, de­tec­tives from the Hu­man Traf­fick­ing Unit swooped in­to a club in Pe­nal and ar­rest­ed 22 fe­male na­tion­als from the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, be­lieved to be vic­tims of a hu­man traf­fick­ing ring.

A Syr­i­an-born man and three male Trinida­di­ans, whom po­lice sus­pect were the mid­dle-men in the traf­fick­ing op­er­a­tion, were al­so ar­rest­ed.

Last night the women were be­ing in­ter­viewed at sev­er­al po­lice sta­tions in the South West­ern Di­vi­sion. Po­lice said the women were found in var­i­ous stages of un­dress, while two were found tied up in bed. It is be­lieved that the women were brought in­to the coun­try il­le­gal­ly and were be­ing used as pros­ti­tutes.

Be­tween 12 am and 6 am, about 50 of­fi­cers led by Se­nior Supt Ho­sein, Actg In­sp Ramdeen, Actg In­sp Subero, and de­tec­tives from the South West­ern Di­vi­sion­al Task Force went to the club in Pe­nal and be­gan search­ing the rooms.

The de­tainees were trans­port­ed in po­lice ve­hi­cles to the Pe­nal and Oropouche po­lice sta­tions. The Im­mi­gra­tion De­part­ment was con­tact­ed to de­ter­mine whether the women had en­tered the coun­try il­le­gal­ly.

T&T has been named as a piv­otal point in the hu­man traf­fick­ing ring which ex­ists in the Caribbean.

Last month, a 30-year-old Tu­na­puna man was ar­rest­ed af­ter po­lice raid­ed a broth­el in Tacarigua. Four women were ar­rest­ed, two of whom claimed to have been held there against their will.

Supt Hen­dron Moses lat­er called on young women to be wary of ad­ver­tise­ments placed in the me­dia about job op­por­tu­ni­ties, since po­lice be­lieved this was one of the ma­jor ploys used to lure women by hu­man traf­fick­ers. Women from sev­er­al Caribbean is­lands in­clud­ing Ja­maica, the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic and Haiti have ad­mit­ted to be­ing lured in­to the coun­try through news­pa­per ad­ver­tise­ments.


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