Police officers and prison officers are said to be stumped in finding the five young offenders who escaped the Youth Training Centre in Golden Grove in Arouca last Thursday.
Prison sources confirmed to the Guardian Media on Monday that there are no leads. “Cold right now,” the prison source said.
This comes even as the police service yesterday shared on its social media pages, a $250,000 reward ($50,000 per escapee) being offered by Crimestoppers for information leading to the recapture of the youth.
Meanwhile, the five remaining residents from the same dormitory in which the five escaped from have all been interviewed, however, no substantial information was given that would help in finding and re-arresting the five.
The escape was believed to be well planned and orchestrated as Intelligence received suggested that there may have been a getaway car involved.
A hacksaw blade was also used to cut through the bars of the dormitory in which they were in.
The escapees have been identified as Dillano Marcano, 16, of Pearl Drive, La Paille Village, Caroni and LP 34 Agostini Street, St Joseph; Jaden Fletcher of LP#73 Parrylands Village, Guapo, Sixth Company Circular Road, New Grant, Princes Town; Anthony Ramsumair, 19, of No. 12 New Village Extension, La Fortune, Woodland; Brian Seepersad, 17, of No. 24 Sea Trace, Bagatelle Road, Diego Martin and Darren Scott, 17, of O’Meara Road, Carapo Village, Arima.
According to a report, at about 2.35 am five of the ten residents were able to cut the bars to the dormitory which has an enclosed area to the back. The young offenders went through the cut bars into the enclosure and were able to lift a wire fencing and crawl under it where they then climbed through a ceiling out into the yard
On the heels of Thursday’s escape at the Youth Training Centre in Arouca where the five residents on capital charges escaped, Commissioner of Prisons Gerald Wilson sent a stern reminder to prison officers to let “vigilance” be their watchword.
Wilson said he would prefer that officers pay more attention, “to their surroundings and the body language of inmates. Also despite the challenges with short staff that vigilance be the watchword.”
Wilson has made a fresh plea for relatives of Thursday’s escapees and/or anyone who knows their whereabouts to turn them over to the police.