Chester Sam­bra­no

The TTPS says rapid and ef­fec­tive po­lice ac­tion by the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion­al Task Force re­sult­ed in mul­ti­ple ar­rests and sig­nif­i­cant seizures ear­ly this morn­ing.

In a me­dia re­lease to­day the TTPS said at ap­prox­i­mate­ly 4:00 am, of­fi­cers re­spond­ed to an ur­gent broad­cast from the South West­ern Di­vi­sion about a high-val­ue ve­hi­cle theft. 

The vic­tim, dri­ving a Nis­san Navar­ra val­ued at $390,000, was forcibly stopped and as­sault­ed by two armed men who stole his ve­hi­cle. How­ev­er, with swift ac­tion and GPS track­ing, Tac­ti­cal Air Sup­port of­fi­cers lo­cat­ed the stolen ve­hi­cle on the north­bound lane of the high­way near Ca­roni. 

The two sus­pects ap­pre­hend­ed were an 18-year-old male from Ger­ald Street, New Vil­lage, Point Fortin and a 32-year-old male from An­drews Dri­ve, Labrea. 

Both sus­pects and the re­cov­ered ve­hi­cle were tak­en to the Freeport Po­lice Sta­tion. 

PC Ma­haraj is con­tin­u­ing the in­ves­ti­ga­tion. 

The TTPS added that in a sep­a­rate op­er­a­tion, a rov­ing road check in the San­gre Grande Dis­trict be­tween 7:00 pm and 10:00 pm led to the ar­rest of a 28-year-old male from Sycamore Dri­ve, San­gre Grande. Dur­ing the check, of­fi­cers seized a firearm, am­mu­ni­tion and 1,027 grams of mar­i­jua­na. 

This op­er­a­tion was co­or­di­nat­ed by W/Snr. Supt. Guy-Al­leyne and Sgt. Bhim, with su­per­vi­sion by Cpl. Singh and the E.D.T.F. team. 

“These suc­cess­ful op­er­a­tions high­light the ded­i­ca­tion and ef­fi­cien­cy of our of­fi­cers in main­tain­ing com­mu­ni­ty safe­ty,” the TTPS said.