The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice ar­rest­ed and charged two men in con­nec­tion with two sep­a­rate at­tempt­ed mur­ders and firearm-re­lat­ed of­fences.

De­tails fol­low in this press re­lease from the TTPS:

Re­cent sus­tained and tar­get­ed an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed in the North­ern Di­vi­sion, have re­sult­ed in sig­nif­i­cant in­roads be­ing made in pre­vent­ing and de­tect­ing crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ties and gang vi­o­lence in the Mal­oney and Ari­ma dis­tricts.

Among the suc­cess­es aris­ing out of these ex­er­cis­es, is the ar­rest and charg­ing of two men in con­nec­tion with two sep­a­rate at­tempt­ed mur­ders and firearm-re­lat­ed of­fences.

JOSI­AH JOHN­SON of D’Abadie, was charged on Fri­day 3rd June 2022 in con­nec­tion with the at­tempt­ed mur­der of a man in D’Abadie which oc­curred on May 16th, 2022. He was al­so charged with pos­ses­sion of firearm, pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion, pos­ses­sion of firearm to en­dan­ger life and pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion to en­dan­ger life. JOHN­SON was al­leged­ly found to be in pos­ses­sion of a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion at the time of his ar­rest on May 30th, 2022, by of­fi­cers of the Mal­oney Crime Pa­trol Unit.

One oth­er per­son had been pre­vi­ous­ly charged in con­nec­tion with this mat­ter. NEBARE LEE was ar­rest­ed on May 17th, 2022, and charged with at­tempt­ed mur­der, pos­ses­sion of firearm, pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion, pos­ses­sion of firearm to en­dan­ger life and pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion to en­dan­ger life. At the time of his ar­rest LEE was al­leged­ly in pos­ses­sion of a pis­tol and 14 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion. He ap­peared be­fore an Ari­ma Mag­is­trate and was re­mand­ed in­to cus­tody. LEE is ex­pect­ed back in court on June 28th, 2022.

In the sec­ond in­ci­dent, LEON SYLVESTER, of D’Abadie, was charged in con­nec­tion with an at­tempt­ed mur­der in­ci­dent which oc­curred on March 23rd, 2022. He was al­so charged with firearm-re­lat­ed of­fences.

Both JOHN­SON and SYLVESTER are ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore an Ari­ma Mag­is­trate to­mor­row to an­swer to the charges.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to these mat­ters were spear­head­ed by Snr. Supt. Pa­ponette, Supt. Ed­wards, ASP Eti­enne and con­duct­ed by of­fi­cers of the Mal­oney Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment.

Mean­while, an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise was con­duct­ed be­tween 4 am and 8 am on Sat­ur­day 4th June, 2022, by of­fi­cers of the North­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force, Ar­eas South and North and the Ca­nine Branch, which re­sult­ed in one man be­ing ar­rest­ed and quan­ti­ties of mar­i­jua­na and am­mu­ni­tion be­ing dis­cov­ered in the Pin­to dis­trict.

Dur­ing the ex­er­cise, of­fi­cers ex­e­cut­ed a search war­rant at the Pin­to Road home of a male sus­pect. Ten pack­ets con­tain­ing 6.1 kilo­grammes of mar­i­jua­na were found hid­den in flower pots on the premis­es. The man who was in the house at the time of the search, was ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the find.

The same par­ty of of­fi­cers, act­ing on in­tel­li­gence, pro­ceed­ed to con­duct a search in the vicin­i­ty of a util­i­ty pole along Pin­to Road. The search re­sult­ed in of­fi­cers find­ing three rounds of am­mu­ni­tion and a plas­tic bag con­tain­ing a quan­ti­ty of mar­i­jua­na.

Al­so, of­fi­cers of the NDTF-North re­spond­ing to a re­port of a rob­bery in the Aripo dis­trict re­cov­ered a ve­hi­cle which was re­port­ed stolen dur­ing the rob­bery in­ci­dent.

Mean­while, dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise con­duct­ed be­tween 3 pm and 7 pm on Sun­day 5th June, 2022, of­fi­cers of the NDTF Area North and Ca­nine Branch, of­fi­cers pro­ceed­ed to the Mau­si­ca Lands ceme­tery, where they seized one Smith and Wes­son re­volver loaded with sev­en rounds of am­mu­ni­tion. A quan­ti­ty of mar­i­jua­na was al­so seized in the Ari­ma dis­trict dur­ing the ex­er­cise.

Act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Mc Don­ald Ja­cob has praised the ded­i­cat­ed work of all of­fi­cers of the North­ern Di­vi­sion in achiev­ing these suc­cess­es and en­cour­ages them and all of­fi­cers across the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice to con­tin­ue work­ing hard against the crim­i­nal el­e­ments in our so­ci­ety.