Chester Sam­bra­no

A New Grant man has been charged with the 2020 mur­ders of four men, in­clud­ing three for­eign na­tion­als, fol­low­ing years of ex­ten­sive in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

In a state­ment from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), Clint Charles, 43, of Mon­key Town, New Grant, ap­peared vir­tu­al­ly be­fore Mas­ter Kami­tria Gray of the South Crim­i­nal Court B on Feb­ru­ary 25, 2025.

He was not called up­on to plead and was re­mand­ed in cus­tody. Charles is sched­uled to reap­pear on April 29, 2025, along­side his co-ac­cused.

The TTPS stat­ed that the charges stem from the dis­cov­ery of the bod­ies of Guimar Jose Rausseo Mar­cano, Danil Mitchell, Jose Ser­a­no, and Aaron George in a bushy area off Dai­ly Road, New Grant, Table­land, on May 25, 2020.

Fol­low­ing a co­or­di­nat­ed cross-re­gion­al law en­force­ment ef­fort, Charles was ar­rest­ed in St. Vin­cent and the Grenadines. The TTPS con­firmed that he was for­mal­ly charged on Feb­ru­ary 24, 2025, by ASP Per­sad of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions, Re­gion III, af­ter the Deputy Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions, Sab­ri­na Dougdeen-Jaglal, ad­vised that he be charged.

The in­ves­ti­ga­tion was led by ASP Per­sad and su­per­vised by Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Dhilpaul and Su­per­in­ten­dent Per­sad, ac­cord­ing to the TTPS state­ment.