Prison officer and food vendor among 12 arrested

Carisa Lee

Re­porter

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A prison of­fi­cer and a food ven­dor at the Port-of-Spain Hos­pi­tal were among 12 peo­ple ar­rest­ed and charged for of­fences com­mit­ted with­in the state’s prison.

On Fri­day, No­vem­ber 14, 2025, Ter­ry-Ann De Leon was ar­rest­ed for al­low­ing pro­hib­it­ed ar­ti­cles to be in­tro­duced in­to the Port-of-Spain Prison. She ap­peared be­fore Mas­ter Mo­hammed at the High Court, plead­ed not guilty, and was grant­ed her own bail.

On Fri­day, No­vem­ber 21, 2025, se­nior po­lice and prison of­fi­cers con­duct­ed search­es at the Ex­tend­ed Re­mand Fa­cil­i­ty (ERF) in Gold­en Grove and the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison (MSP) in Arou­ca.

Some in­mates faced ad­di­tion­al charges af­ter re­fus­ing to be fin­ger­print­ed. They are ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a High Court Mas­ter on Mon­day.

Prison Of­fi­cer Zane May­nard, at­tached to the Arou­ca Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison, was grant­ed bail of $200,000 af­ter be­ing charged with pos­ses­sion of mar­i­jua­na and pos­ses­sion of pro­hib­it­ed ar­ti­cles. The of­fi­cer, who has four years of ser­vice, is re­quired to re­port to the Arou­ca Po­lice Sta­tion on Sat­ur­days be­tween 6 a.m. and 8 p.m.