Two Unit­ed States cit­i­zens want­ed in their coun­try on drug traf­fick­ing charges have been de­port­ed from Trinidad and To­ba­go.

A re­lease from the US Em­bassy in Port-of-Spain said Tevin Williams and Za­kiya Williams were de­port­ed from T&T to the US, where they will face fed­er­al charges for drug traf­fick­ing and fail­ure to ap­pear in court. It said spe­cial agents from the US Diplo­mat­ic Se­cu­ri­ty Ser­vice (DSS) and US Mar­shals Ser­vice (USMS) Task Force of­fi­cers, to­geth­er with of­fi­cers from the Transna­tion­al Or­ga­nized Crime Unit (TOCU) of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), es­cort­ed Tevin and Za­kiya Williams from Port-of-Spain to the Unit­ed States.

The Williamses were charged with crimes in Cal­i­for­nia and New York in Sep­tem­ber 2023. Af­ter be­ing grant­ed pre-tri­al re­lease that year, they fled the coun­try and trav­elled to Trinidad and To­ba­go, re­sult­ing in fed­er­al charges and war­rants be­ing is­sued by the USMS. Deputy Mar­shals with the USMS and spe­cial agents with the DSS, in part­ner­ship with agents from TOCU, be­gan ef­forts to lo­cate the fugi­tives in March 2025 af­ter in­for­ma­tion sur­faced that they may have been hid­ing in T&T.

The US Em­bassy said the ef­fort to find the fugi­tives cul­mi­nat­ed in the days be­fore the de­por­ta­tion flight, with their ar­rest by TOCU and the Drug En­force­ment Ad­min­is­tra­tion’s Vet­ted Unit (VU) in the La Ro­main area of Trinidad on Au­gust 19. Days lat­er, on Au­gust 21, the Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty is­sued a de­por­ta­tion or­der for both fugi­tives.

US Em­bassy Chargé d’Af­faires Char­lie Fran­ta said, “The close part­ner­ship be­tween our na­tions’ law en­force­ment ser­vices and the re­sults those re­la­tion­ships con­sis­tent­ly pro­duce, pro­vides a shin­ing ex­am­ple of what we can ac­com­plish to­geth­er. Lo­cat­ing, ar­rest­ing, and con­duct­ing a re­turn of two US fugi­tives si­mul­ta­ne­ous­ly is a feat un­heard of in the re­gion. I’m very proud of our two na­tions’ pro­fes­sion­als in law en­force­ment as they con­tin­ue every day to strive to make our coun­tries, and the world, a safer place for our cit­i­zens.”