Twelve Venezue­lans who are in this coun­try il­le­gal­ly are ex­pect­ed to be charged with sev­er­al of­fences.

A state­ment from the TTPs is­sued yes­ter­day said the 12, who were in­ter­cept­ed on a ves­sel in Ica­cos last week, face charges of il­le­gal en­try in­to the coun­try and aid­ing and abet­ting.

On Au­gust 13, the Coast Guard stopped a ves­sel car­ry­ing 20 pas­sen­gers, which in­clud­ed six males, six fe­males, and eight chil­dren, as well as 32 buck­ets of cheese, 14 bullfinch birds, and four cro­cus bags con­tain­ing meat.

The TTPS said af­ter in­ves­ti­ga­tions, of­fi­cers re­ceived in­struc­tions to lay the charges against the 12 im­mi­grants, while the eight chil­dren were re­leased in­to the care of their im­me­di­ate rel­a­tives.

Charges of 14 counts of keep­ing a cage bird in cap­tiv­i­ty with­out a per­mit and keep­ing a bird in an un­der­sized cage are ex­pect­ed to be laid on the male im­mi­grants.

Sus­pect held for mur­der of kid­nap vic­tim

Mean­while, in the North­ern Di­vi­sion, Task Force of­fi­cers con­duct­ed an ex­er­cise in Area South be­tween 9 pm and 12 am on Sun­day, Au­gust 17, dur­ing which a 22-year-old mur­der sus­pect was ar­rest­ed in the Mal­oney dis­trict. The Waller­field man is want­ed in con­nec­tion with the Ju­ly 7 mur­der of Ker­ry Von Adams, which oc­curred in the Ari­ma dis­trict. Adams, who was kid­napped, was found dead in the Heights of Gu­napo de­spite a $15,000 ran­som be­ing paid.