OT­TO CAR­RING­TON

Se­nior Re­porter

Firearms deal­er Luke Hadeed vol­un­tar­i­ly sur­ren­dered to the po­lice to­day.

Hadeed's com­pa­ny, AE Tac­ti­cal, has been at the cen­tre of con­tro­ver­sy over the im­por­ta­tion of two high-pow­ered sniper ri­fles in­to Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Guardian Me­dia was there when Hadeed and his at­tor­ney at law, Om Lal­la, walked in­to the Po­lice Ad­min­is­tra­tion Build­ing just af­ter 11 am to­day.

This de­vel­op­ment fol­lows the ar­rest of for­mer Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency (SSA) di­rec­tor Ma­jor Roger Best, who was tak­en in­to cus­tody dur­ing a pre-dawn raid at his Ari­ma res­i­dence on Wednes­day morn­ing.

Hadeed's at­tor­ney ruled out claims that his client is on the run or hid­ing from po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tors.

“There are re­ports in the me­dia that Luke Hadeed of AE Tac­ti­cal is in hid­ing … that he is un­der ar­rest … de­tained. Noth­ing can be fur­ther from the truth,” Hadeed’s at­tor­ney as­sert­ed.

“We un­der­stand they want to in­ter­view him [and] we are avail­able. We have noth­ing to hide,” he said. “His in­volve­ment has been trans­par­ent and well doc­u­ment­ed.”

“It is un­for­tu­nate that the me­dia’s per­cep­tion of what is be­ing said is on­ly dam­ag­ing his name and his rep­u­ta­tion,” Lal­la stat­ed. “It is clear that he is here and we are go­ing in­to head­quar­ters.”

At the time of pub­lish­ing this ar­ti­cle, Hadeed was be­ing in­ter­viewed at the Po­lice Ad­min­is­tra­tion Build­ing.

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This is a de­vel­op­ing sto­ry and will be up­dat­ed as de­tails come to hand.