Police arrest seven; recover stolen vehicles

Sev­en men were ar­rest­ed and two stolen ve­hi­cles re­cov­ered dur­ing a po­lice op­er­a­tion in the Four Roads dis­trict on Mon­day night.

Of­fi­cers of the West­ern Di­vi­sion, with sup­port from the West End Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment (CID) and the West­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force (WDTF), con­duct­ed the op­er­a­tion fol­low­ing in­tel­li­gence re­ceived from the Com­mand Cen­tre. The in­for­ma­tion con­cerned a sil­ver Toy­ota Field­er Wag­on re­port­ed stolen ear­li­er that day in the Ari­ma dis­trict.

Act­ing on the in­for­ma­tion, of­fi­cers pro­ceed­ed to a car park near First Cit­i­zens Bank, Four Roads. There, they dis­cov­ered the stolen Toy­ota Field­er Wag­on and two oth­er ve­hi­cles.

The be­hav­iour of sev­er­al in­di­vid­u­als at the scene prompt­ed of­fi­cers to in­ter­vene, lead­ing to the ini­tial de­ten­tion of four sus­pects.

Short­ly af­ter, an­oth­er ve­hi­cle at­tempt­ing to evade po­lice was in­ter­cept­ed, and three ad­di­tion­al sus­pects were de­tained. Po­lice re­cov­ered tools sus­pect­ed to have been used in ve­hi­cle thefts and a bank card be­long­ing to one of the vic­tims.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions con­firmed that two of the ve­hi­cles at the scene were stolen, fit­ted with false plates, and showed signs of forced en­try and tam­pered ig­ni­tions.

The scene was processed by West­ern Di­vi­sion CSI, and in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue with sup­port from Ari­ma CID.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is urg­ing mem­bers of the pub­lic to re­port sus­pi­cious ac­tiv­i­ty and re­it­er­ates its com­mit­ment to com­bat­ing mo­tor ve­hi­cle theft and oth­er crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty.