Five sus­pects were ar­rest­ed for vary­ing of­fences dur­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed in the North­ern and East­ern Di­vi­sions this week.

The TTPS said task force of­fi­cers con­duct­ed a house search op­er­a­tion in Area North of the North­ern Di­vi­sion be­tween 4 am and 8 am, on Thurs­day 28th No­vem­ber 2024, dur­ing which one male sus­pect of Pi­ar­co Old  Road, was ar­rest­ed for pos­ses­sion of a quan­ti­ty of cannabis. 

Two fe­male sus­pects, who were in his com­pa­ny, were al­so held dur­ing the ex­er­cise.  

The same par­ty of of­fi­cers, act­ing on in­for­ma­tion re­ceived, then pro­ceed­ed to the D’Abadie dis­trict, where they re­cov­ered a sil­ver Nis­san Almera mo­tor ve­hi­cle which was re­port­ed­ly stolen in the Cou­va Po­lice dis­trict.  

One male sus­pect was held in con­nec­tion with the mat­ter.  

And, in the East­ern Di­vi­sion, a 48, year old man of Rio Claro was held for sex­u­al of­fences against a mi­nor.  

The ar­rest stems from an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to a re­port of a miss­ing fe­male teenag­er on No­vem­ber 25th, 2025.  The miss­ing girl was sub­se­quent­ly found.  

Of­fi­cers of the Child Pro­tec­tion Unit, San­gre Grande, are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the mat­ter.