Pris­on­er Ra­jaee Ali has been for­mal­ly charged with pos­ses­sion of pro­hib­it­ed items fol­low­ing the dis­cov­ery of con­tra­band at the Gold­en Grove Prison, Arou­ca, last month.

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice con­firmed yes­ter­day that Ali was charged with pos­ses­sion of pro­hib­it­ed ar­ti­cles, in breach of Sec­tion 8(1)(f) of the Prison Ser­vice Act Chap­ter 13:01, as amend­ed by Act 25 of 2019.

The charge stems from an in­ci­dent on June 25, when Ali was al­leged­ly found with a Sam­sung cel­lu­lar phone, an un­brand­ed SIM card, and a phone charg­er—items clas­si­fied as pro­hib­it­ed with­out the ex­press per­mis­sion of the Com­mis­sion­er of Pris­ons.

Ali, who is cur­rent­ly de­tained at the De­fence Force head­quar­ters in Ch­aguara­mas, was of­fi­cial­ly charged yes­ter­day by of­fi­cers of the Spe­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tions Unit (SIU).

The in­ves­ti­ga­tion was or­dered by Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro, led by Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Suzette Mar­tin and su­per­vised by Snr Supt Ed­wards, Supt Morales, and ASP Lynch, along with se­nior of­fi­cers of the SIU.