Shane Su­perville

One day af­ter a New York re­tiree was robbed in down­town Port-of-Spain, of­fi­cers of the Port-of-Spain City Po­lice found and ar­rest­ed one of the ban­dits in­volved.

Po­lice said the man who was vis­it­ing Trinidad for Car­ni­val was stand­ing near New City Mall on Mon­day around 12.05 pm when he was con­front­ed by two men who stole his gold chain and pen­dant and tried to take his gold band be­fore run­ning away.

A re­port was made and in­ves­ti­ga­tors viewed footage of the in­ci­dent and recog­nised one of the men who they de­scribed as a "known chain snatch­er."

On Tues­day a team of po­lice led by Sgt Joseph and PC Lewis were on pa­trol when they found the 21-year-old man and ar­rest­ed him.

He was charged with rob­bery af­ter be­ing placed on an iden­ti­fi­ca­tion pa­rade on Wednes­day and iden­ti­fied as the ban­dit.

In an un­re­lat­ed in­ci­dent, a ban­dit stole a woman's cell­phone as she sat in a car which was stuck in traf­fic on Wednes­day morn­ing.

Po­lice said the woman was on her way to work in the front pas­sen­ger side seat with the win­dow down on Queen Street when a man walked up to the car and snatched her cell­phone be­fore run­ning away.

A re­port was made and of­fi­cers of the Port-of-Spain City Po­lice led by Sgt Dwayne John with as­sis­tance from PC Bhag­wan­deen co-or­di­nat­ed sev­er­al search­es be­fore even­tu­al­ly find­ing the Sam­sung cell­phone in down­town Port-of-Spain.

No one was ar­rest­ed in re­la­tion to the rob­bery.