Woman placed on PDO over alleged ride-share robbery ring

Two peo­ple have been placed un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) un­der Reg­u­la­tion 14 of the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, 2026, af­ter the Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty de­ter­mined their de­ten­tion was nec­es­sary to pre­vent acts con­sid­ered prej­u­di­cial to pub­lic safe­ty.

In sep­a­rate or­ders signed by Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der, Seanique Vin­cent, al­so known as Shanique Wil­son, of Maize Dri­ve, Va­len­cia, and Rudranath Gayaper­sad of Chester Street, Debe, were or­dered to be de­tained based on in­tel­li­gence and on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to al­leged or­gan­ised crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty.

Vin­cent was or­dered de­tained on Ju­ly 10 at the Women’s Prison in Gold­en Grove, Arou­ca, or any oth­er lo­ca­tion di­rect­ed by the min­is­ter.

Ac­cord­ing to the de­ten­tion or­der, in­ves­ti­ga­tors have iden­ti­fied Vin­cent as an al­leged ac­com­plice and en­forcer in an or­gan­ised crime group known to law en­force­ment as the “Ride Share Rob­bery Ring Gang”, which falls with­in the de­f­i­n­i­tion of an or­gan­ised crime group un­der the An­ti-Gang Act, 2021.

The or­der al­leged the group has been linked to kid­nap­pings, lar­ce­ny, high-risk rob­beries, gang-re­lat­ed shoot­ings, stolen ve­hi­cle of­fences and oth­er firearm-re­lat­ed crimes, and has con­nec­tions to an­oth­er or­gan­ised crime group known as the “Sixx Gang”.

Gayaper­sad was or­dered de­tained on Ju­ly 16 at the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre in San­ta Rosa, Ari­ma, or an­oth­er lo­ca­tion di­rect­ed by the min­is­ter.

His de­ten­tion or­der al­leged he is a mem­ber of an or­gan­ised crime group op­er­at­ing in south Trinidad that is in­volved in the sale and dis­tri­b­u­tion of firearms, am­mu­ni­tion and il­le­gal nar­cotics.

The or­der stat­ed Gayaper­sad was re­cent­ly found in pos­ses­sion of il­le­gal nar­cotics and am­mu­ni­tion and al­leged­ly threat­ened to kill mem­bers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice up­on his re­lease from cus­tody.

Au­thor­i­ties fur­ther al­leged con­fi­den­tial in­tel­li­gence iden­ti­fied him as the gang’s “stash man” and in­di­cat­ed he and oth­er mem­bers in­tend­ed to car­ry out firearm at­tacks against po­lice of­fi­cers in pub­lic spaces. The or­der al­so cit­ed his al­leged his­to­ry of vi­o­lent and crim­i­nal be­hav­iour as grounds for his con­tin­ued de­ten­tion.