Two arrested; firearm seized after Chaguanas robbery

Two men were ar­rest­ed and a firearm seized fol­low­ing an armed rob­bery at a mi­ni mart in Ch­agua­nas to­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) said the ar­rests were made af­ter a co­or­di­nat­ed re­sponse by of­fi­cers of the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Task Force (Area North) fol­low­ing a re­port of a rob­bery with ag­gra­va­tion at a busi­ness place along La Clave Street, Ed­in­burgh 500, Ch­agua­nas.

Po­lice said the in­ci­dent oc­curred at ap­prox­i­mate­ly 12:55 p.m. Pre­lim­i­nary en­quiries re­vealed that two sus­pects ar­rived at the mi­ni mart in a sil­ver Toy­ota Aqua.

Ac­cord­ing to the TTPS, the dri­ver re­mained in­side the ve­hi­cle while the oth­er sus­pect, who was armed with a firearm, en­tered the es­tab­lish­ment and an­nounced a rob­bery.

Po­lice said the sus­pect dis­charged two shots be­fore steal­ing a quan­ti­ty of cash from the pro­pri­etor. The two men then fled the scene in the wait­ing ve­hi­cle.

Of­fi­cers quick­ly co­or­di­nat­ed with oth­er po­lice units, lead­ing to the in­ter­cep­tion of the sus­pect ve­hi­cle along Mad­hoo Trace, Carlsen Field, a short time lat­er.

A search of the ve­hi­cle re­sult­ed in the dis­cov­ery of a black pis­tol loaded with 10 rounds of 9mm am­mu­ni­tion, along with a pair of reg­is­tra­tion plates and sev­er­al items of cloth­ing be­lieved to have been worn dur­ing the com­mis­sion of the of­fence.

The two sus­pects were ar­rest­ed and tak­en in­to po­lice cus­tody as in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue.

The TTPS said the swift re­sponse was part of on­go­ing ef­forts by law en­force­ment of­fi­cers to re­spond to re­ports of se­ri­ous crimes and re­move il­le­gal firearms from com­mu­ni­ties.