Mom, stepdad of baby Angelo remain in police custody

Stephon Nicholas

To­ba­go Cor­re­spon­dent

The moth­er of miss­ing two-year-old An­ge­lo To­bias Plaza and her boyfriend re­main in po­lice cus­tody in To­ba­go.

Po­lice con­firmed they are be­ing held at sep­a­rate lo­ca­tions as they con­tin­ue to ques­tion them on the child’s dis­ap­pear­ance.

Kali­fah To­bias, 22, and her boyfriend Shan­non Miller, 25, were tak­en from their Good­wood home by in­ves­ti­ga­tors on Fri­day af­ter­noon.

An­ge­lo was re­port­ed miss­ing from his sea­side home on Cam­bridge Trace around 7.30 pm on Mon­day night.

Ex­ten­sive search­es on land and sea by var­i­ous state agen­cies, a pri­vate ma­rine com­pa­ny and vol­un­teers have come up emp­ty-hand­ed.

The fo­cus of the search has been shift­ed to land, as ex­perts say An­ge­lo’s body would have be­gun to float by day three if he had drowned.

Golds­bor­ough res­i­dent Deni­cia Miller, sis­ter of Shan­non Miller, was in Good­wood yes­ter­day look­ing on as two Hunters Search and Res­cue teams scoured the ground for the tod­dler.

She told Guardian Me­dia she last saw An­ge­lo walk­ing with his moth­er in Scar­bor­ough on Sun­day.

She said An­ge­lo ran up to her and hugged her tight­ly — a mem­o­ry she said she won’t for­get.

“It’s five days now and I feel re­al­ly, re­al­ly sad. It is not a nice thing. It is not a good thing. All your fam­i­ly and friends are sad­dened,” she said.

Asked what the re­la­tion­ship was like be­tween her broth­er and To­bias, Miller said she was not sure.

Mean­while, Hunters Search and Res­cue, led by Sham­sudeen Ayube, said they nar­rowed the search to cer­tain ar­eas based on in­for­ma­tion re­ceived.

Their op­er­a­tions start­ed around 9.30 am as they searched along the coast­line, the swampy ar­eas and the bush­es.

Team mem­ber Clint Thomas said, “The Hunters Search and Res­cue al­ways likes to bring clo­sure to any case, even to find loved ones.”

He added, “This rocked Trinidad and To­ba­go, so this is part of (what we do), so we are go­ing all out to bring clo­sure to this case.

Thomas said the team is work­ing in co­or­di­na­tion with the po­lice and plans to search non­stop un­til An­ge­lo is found.

“We will search un­til clo­sure of this case.”

Mean­while, vil­lagers said that a can­dle­light vig­il will be held to­day at 7pm to ad­vo­cate for jus­tice for An­ge­lo. It will be held out­side Sharon’s Su­per­mar­ket at the cor­ner of Cam­bridge Trace.

Good­wood Vil­lage Coun­cil pres­i­dent Wendy Des Vi­gnes yes­ter­day de­mand­ed charges be brought against who­ev­er was re­spon­si­ble for An­ge­lo’s dis­ap­pear­ance.