RHON­DOR DOWLAT 

Se­nior Re­porter 

rhon­dor.dowlat@guardian.co.tt 

A po­lice of­fi­cer and a rel­a­tive were ab­duct­ed and robbed on Mon­day while trav­el­ling in Va­len­cia.

Po­lice re­port­ed that the two left the of­fi­cer’s Tacarigua home with a man known to them. The sus­pect al­leged­ly took them to Va­len­cia to con­duct a mon­ey trans­ac­tion. Along Clarence Trace, Va­len­cia Old Road, six oth­er sus­pects blocked their ve­hi­cle and forced the of­fi­cer and his rel­a­tive out.

The sus­pects al­leged­ly as­sault­ed the vic­tims and robbed them of their be­long­ings. They then de­mand­ed a ran­som from an­oth­er rel­a­tive of the vic­tims. Af­ter re­ceiv­ing con­fir­ma­tion of the pay­ment, the sus­pects moved the of­fi­cer and his rel­a­tive to a shack fur­ther along Clarence Trace and tied them up.

The vic­tims man­aged to free them­selves and sought med­ical at­ten­tion be­fore con­tact­ing the po­lice. In­ves­ti­gat­ing of­fi­cers lat­er re­cov­ered the vic­tims’ ve­hi­cle, which had been used to block the road at Clarence Trace.

Po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the in­ci­dent con­tin­ue.