A 67-year-old woman was tied up and robbed of sev­er­al items, in­clud­ing her tele­vi­sion sets and cook­ing gas tanks by a gun­man who stormed her house.

Po­lice said the woman had se­cured her home at Plus Gar­dens, Co­coyea Vil­lage, San Fer­nan­do, around 9 pm on Mon­day and went to sleep.

Lat­er, around 2 am, she was jolt­ed by a loud noise and then con­front­ed by a man with a ban­dana over his face, who point­ed a firearm at her and de­mand­ed mon­ey. He tied her hands and feet with duct tape and or­dered her to re­main on her bed.

She even­tu­al­ly man­aged to un­tie her­self and found her 42-inch Sam­sung tele­vi­sion, 75-inch Mag­num tele­vi­sion, 55-inch Sam­sung tele­vi­sion, two LPG cook­ing gas tanks, and her cell phone miss­ing.

Po­lice said the bur­glar en­tered her home by re­mov­ing the lou­vres of a win­dow.

Of­fi­cers from Mon Re­pos Po­lice Sta­tion are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.

Rio Claro man ab­duct­ed; po­lice­man’s home robbed

A 31-year-old Rio Claro man was ab­duct­ed in his own van, robbed of $29,000 and then left tied up in an iso­lat­ed area in Cen­tral Trinidad.

The vic­tim, a me­chan­i­cal su­per­vi­sor, told po­lice he went to his co-work­er’s home at Cam­den Road, Cou­va around 7.40 am on Mon­day and spoke briefly with him.

As he left he was con­front­ed by two men, one armed with a gun.

The ban­dits bun­dled the man in­to his own Toy­oya Hilux, tied his hands and feet and drove to an un­known lo­ca­tion. They then robbed him of  $29,000, a $9,000 iPhone 16 and a $3,000 grey Dell lap­top. The as­sailants then ran off, leav­ing the vic­tim be­hind.  Po­lice lat­er de­tained two sus­pects, ages 53 and 43 years old from Cou­va. 

In an­oth­er in­ci­dent, a po­lice­man’s home was bro­ken in­to and sev­er­al items stolen. 

Po­lice said the 40-year-old of­fi­cer and his wife of Jern­ing­ham Junc­tion Road, Cunu­pia, se­cured their home around 7.50 am on Mon­day.

When they re­turned lat­er that day, around 3.30 pm, they dis­cov­ered the steal se­cu­ri­ty door had been pried open. 

The apart­ment was ran­sacked, and sev­er­al items miss­ing, in­clud­ing a PS5 con­troller, a cool­ing fan and charg­er, a pro­jec­tor, two drones, and an as­sort­ment of gold jew­ellery val­ued at $20,000.

Their mon­ey, in­clud­ing $1,200 in Cana­di­an cur­ren­cy and $6000, was al­so miss­ing.

Cen­tral Di­vi­sion po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing both in­ci­dents.