Security officer abducted, beaten and dumped in Siparia

A 59-year-old se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer was kid­napped, as­sault­ed and left un­con­scious along a road­way in Siparia ear­ly Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

Po­lice said the vic­tim re­port­ed that around 5:20 am on May 2, he was dri­ving his black Nis­san Note along Sin­cline Road, San­ta Flo­ra, when a dark-coloured ve­hi­cle trav­el­ling in the op­po­site di­rec­tion veered in­to his lane. The im­pact caused the right wing mir­rors of both ve­hi­cles to col­lide.

He told of­fi­cers he stopped his ve­hi­cle and was about to ex­it when two men ap­proached him and be­gan ar­gu­ing. The sus­pects then forced him in­to the back seat of his ve­hi­cle. One man en­tered the dri­ver’s seat and drove off, while the oth­er re­mained in the back with him.

Dur­ing the or­deal, the vic­tim said he was choked and lost con­scious­ness.

He lat­er awoke on Quinam Beach Road, Siparia, where he found his ve­hi­cle aban­doned near­by with ex­ten­sive dam­age.

Po­lice of­fi­cers from the Siparia Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment vis­it­ed the scene, in­ter­viewed res­i­dents and con­duct­ed checks for CCTV footage, but none was ob­tained.

The ve­hi­cle was tak­en to the Siparia Po­lice Sta­tion and processed by crime scene in­ves­ti­ga­tors, how­ev­er no us­able fin­ger­prints were re­cov­ered.

The vic­tim was tak­en to a health fa­cil­i­ty for treat­ment and lat­er trans­ferred to the Point Fortin Hos­pi­tal for fur­ther tests.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing.