The search is on for three sus­pects who pre­tend­ed to be po­lice of­fi­cers con­duct­ing a road­block ex­er­cise in Barataria, dur­ing which they kid­napped and robbed two work­ers of a quan­ti­ty of al­co­hol. 

Around 1 pm on Au­gust 10, the 34-year-old dri­ver of San­ta Cruz and his 22-year-old col­league of Diego Mar­tin – were dri­ving south to­wards the Churchill Roo­sevelt High­way in the vicin­i­ty of Mar­iti­ma Plaza, Barataria, in a com­pa­ny ve­hi­cle be­long­ing to D Movers, a de­part­ment of Ansa Mo­bil­i­ty, Churchill Roo­sevelt High­way Ex­ten­sion, Barataria. 

They were al­leged­ly stopped by the sus­pects in what ap­peared to be a road­block ex­er­cise. 

As the sus­pects re­quest­ed the dri­ving doc­u­ments and or­dered the vic­tims to ex­it the truck, they com­plied and were then bun­dled in­to a sil­ver Nis­san AD wag­on, where they were blind­fold­ed and their hands tied. 

Tak­en to an un­known lo­ca­tion, the dri­ver was robbed of two cell phones; TT $260 in cash; and a  knife val­ued at TT $140. 

The sec­ond vic­tim was robbed of one cell phone; a bank card; and one bunch of keys. 

The sus­pects then took the truck con­tain­ing the 588 cas­es of as­sort­ed al­co­hol which the vic­tims had been trans­port­ing. 

The vic­tims were lat­er re­leased in the Mal­ick area where they freed them­selves and re­port­ed the mat­ter to the po­lice.