SHANE SU­PERVILLE

Se­nior Re­porter

A 30-year-old Barataria man, who ran away from po­lice of­fi­cers af­ter be­ing pulled over for reck­less dri­ving, has been fined $5,000.

Po­lice said the in­ci­dent took place on Ju­ly 19, 2025, when W/Cpl Alves and PC Forde—two of­fi­cers of the Tran­sit Po­lice Unit (TPU)—were on pa­trol along the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route near the Aranguez Sa­van­nah. They spot­ted a white Toy­ota Corol­la speed­ing west along the route.

The of­fi­cers chased the car to the Aranguez traf­fic lights and drove along­side it to get the dri­ver’s at­ten­tion.

Po­lice re­port­ed that the dri­ver saw them but swerved left to avoid be­ing stopped, dri­ving on­to William Street be­fore even­tu­al­ly be­ing in­ter­cept­ed near an NP Gas Sta­tion.

The dri­ver and his two pas­sen­gers were or­dered out of the car and asked to pro­duce a Dri­ver’s Per­mit and Cer­tifi­cate of In­sur­ance. How­ev­er, he on­ly hand­ed over his na­tion­al ID card. When of­fi­cers told him they still need­ed to see his per­mit, he ran off and es­caped.

Checks re­vealed that the man had nev­er been is­sued a Dri­ver’s Per­mit.

Po­lice lat­er ob­tained a war­rant and ar­rest­ed him at his Barataria home last Fri­day.

He ap­peared be­fore a Port of Spain mag­is­trate on Mon­day, where he was fined $1,500 for dri­ving with­out a Dri­ver’s Li­cence and $3,500 for dri­ving with­out a Cer­tifi­cate of In­sur­ance.