An­na Lisa Paul 

Rob­bers stole three high-end ve­hi­cles, cash, valu­ables, and a reg­is­tered firearm from a re­tired neu­ro­sur­geon dur­ing a home in­va­sion on Sun­day.

The 84-year-old Fair­ways, Mar­aval res­i­dent was at home with his 42-year-old care­tak­er and gar­den­er from Blan­chisseuse when five men breached the prop­er­ty's walls and en­tered the house.

Be­tween 7 pm and 7.45 pm on March 16, the in­trud­ers beat and tied up both vic­tims.

One sus­pect spoke on the phone with a man who di­rect­ed him where to search and where to find the safes.

An armed sus­pect or­dered the re­tired doc­tor to pro­vide the codes to open the safes. The vic­tim lat­er hand­ed over the keys, al­low­ing the sus­pects to steal TT$21,000 in cash, a quan­ti­ty of US and Pounds Ster­ling, an iPhone 11 val­ued at TT$7,000, a Smith & Wes­son re­volver con­tain­ing five rounds of .38 am­mu­ni­tion, and 20 rounds of 9mm am­mu­ni­tion.

The sus­pects ran­sacked the house, stole sev­er­al box­es of al­co­hol, and re­moved the DVR sys­tem hid­den in the kitchen. They al­so es­caped with three ve­hi­cles: a brown Porsche Cayenne, a black Bar­bas Mer­cedes-Benz, and a white Land Cruis­er 100 se­ries.

The vic­tims man­aged to free them­selves and raised the alarm.

Of­fi­cers from the Mar­aval Po­lice Sta­tion re­spond­ed, and emer­gency health of­fi­cials took the for­mer doc­tor to hos­pi­tal for a cut un­der his right foot, which was not life-threat­en­ing.

As po­lice launched a search for the sus­pects, they re­cov­ered the Porsche Cayenne aban­doned along Golf Course Road a short while lat­er. Around 1 am, of­fi­cers found the Mer­cedes-Benz on Be­dassie Street, St Au­gus­tine.

The vic­tim pro­vid­ed the names of sev­er­al per­sons of in­ter­est, whom the po­lice planned to in­ter­view yes­ter­day.