One man was injured while two others were captured during a shoot-out with police officers following a robbery in Curepe Junction.
Three people are now in custody, and a search is being carried out for a fourth suspect who escaped after crashing the getaway car.
Reports indicate three suspects entered a grocery along the Southern Main Road near Bobby’s Bar around 1:15 pm and announced a robbery.
As one man pointed a firearm at the cashier, the other two suspects allegedly moved through the aisles, taking food items, as well as cigarettes and alcohol.
Before exiting the grocery, the armed bandit reportedly emptied the register of an undisclosed amount of cash before joining his accomplices as they ran to the waiting car which remained idling on the road.
As the victims alerted police who were on patrol in the area, officers of the North Central Division Task Force and the St Joseph CID were able to locate the getaway car within minutes of the robbery.
They pursued the men along the Eastern Main Road, Mt Hope in a high-speed chase which ended at Hutton Road—a shoot-out reportedly occurred between lawmen and the suspects.
One man was injured in the melee.
Two others were eventually held by police officers in the Mt Hope area, but the driver managed to escape.
The suspects in custody—whose ages ranged from early to mid-20s—were said to be from the St Joseph and Arima areas.
The injured suspect was taken to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, Mt Hope where he was treated and then warded under police guard.
Snr Supt Richard Smith praised the quick work and the determined efforts by officers to capture the suspects as he warned persons intent on committing crime, to stay out of the jurisdiction.
Insp Green along with Sgt Peters and officers of the North Central Division Task Force and the St Joseph CID were responsible for apprehending the suspects.