A Trinida­di­an man want­ed in the Unit­ed States for mur­der and oth­er se­ri­ous of­fences, has been ar­rest­ed dur­ing a joint in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion con­duct­ed in the cen­tral di­vi­sion on Wednes­day.

A lo­cal in­tel­li­gence unit re­ceived in­for­ma­tion from an in­ter­na­tion­al source that some­time in Jan­u­ary 2024, the sus­pect, a Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­al, and a res­i­dent of the US, was want­ed by US au­thor­i­ties for the of­fences of mur­der, rob­bery with ag­gra­va­tion, pos­ses­sion of a firearm, pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion, pos­ses­sion of a firearm to en­dan­ger life and pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion to en­dan­ger life.

The of­fences stem from a Sep­tem­ber 2021 in­ci­dent dur­ing which the sus­pect al­leged­ly dis­charged a firearm re­sult­ing in a vic­tim’s death. It is fur­ther al­leged that the sus­pect then fled the US in Oc­to­ber 2021, bound for Trinidad.

The US sub­se­quent­ly ob­tained an in­dict­ment against the sus­pect re­lat­ing to the of­fences. This process was re­ceived in Trinidad and To­ba­go, through the Mu­tu­al Le­gal As­sis­tance (MLAT) via the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al’s Cen­tral Au­thor­i­ty Of­fice and in Ju­ly 2024, the lo­cal in­tel­li­gence unit ob­tained a copy of the Pro­vi­sion­al War­rant for the Ar­rest and Ex­tra­di­tion of the Sus­pect.

The lo­cal in­tel­li­gence unit im­me­di­ate­ly act­ed on in­for­ma­tion re­gard­ing the where­abouts of the sus­pect and af­ter lengthy pe­ri­ods of sur­veil­lance in the south and cen­tral di­vi­sions, an ex­er­cise was con­duct­ed on Wednes­day.

Dur­ing the ex­er­cise, the sus­pect was ap­pre­hend­ed in the Cunu­pia dis­trict and the Ex­tra­di­tion war­rant ex­e­cut­ed on him.