Two suspects held in Cumuto house after maxi taxi robbery

Two male sus­pects have been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with a rob­bery in­volv­ing a maxi taxi and its pas­sen­gers along the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route in Arou­ca on No­vem­ber 19.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, the ar­rests fol­lowed an in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion con­duct­ed in the North­ern Di­vi­sion by of­fi­cers of the North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Gang and In­tel­li­gence Unit, the South West­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force, and the Spe­cial Forces Op­er­a­tions De­tach­ment of the Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force.

Of­fi­cers went to a house in the Cu­mu­to dis­trict be­tween 3 pm and 7 pm yes­ter­day, where they found the two sus­pects in­side a room. Po­lice said fur­ther search­es of the house led to the dis­cov­ery of one re­volver loaded with six rounds of am­mu­ni­tion, along with eight rounds of as­sort­ed am­mu­ni­tion, which were hid­den in a black lunch bag.