26 men arrested over $264,000 in maintenance

Thir­ty-sev­en peo­ple want­ed on out­stand­ing war­rants have been ar­rest­ed by Cen­tral Di­vi­sion po­lice, in­clud­ing 26 men who owe more than $264,000 in main­te­nance pay­ments.

The ar­rests were made dur­ing a 24-hour in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion un­der Op­er­a­tion R.E.S.O.L.U.T.E Shield, which be­gan at 9 am on No­vem­ber 7.

Po­lice said ex­ten­sive in­quiries con­duct­ed over the past month al­lowed of­fi­cers to ex­e­cute 58 war­rants and ap­pre­hend the 37 in­di­vid­u­als.

Twen­ty-six men were ar­rest­ed on 43 af­fil­i­a­tion war­rants in­volv­ing out­stand­ing main­te­nance pay­ments to­talling $264,354.98.

Six oth­er men were held on ten TAC war­rants for of­fences in­clud­ing traf­fic vi­o­la­tions, lar­ce­ny and break­ing.

Four men and a woman were al­so ar­rest­ed on bench war­rants.

The want­ed in­di­vid­u­als were ap­pre­hend­ed in Ch­agua­nas, Cou­va, Cara­pichaima, Cal­i­for­nia, Ca­roni, Chase Vil­lage, Freeport, En­ter­prise and St He­le­na.

The ex­er­cise was su­per­vised and co-or­di­nat­ed by Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Bhag­wan­deen, Su­per­in­ten­dent Glodon, As­sis­tant Su­per­in­ten­dents Ho­sein and Ali, In­spec­tor Ram­saran, Woman In­spec­tor Hope-Awong and Sergeant Ram­gob­in.

It was spear­head­ed by Cor­po­ral Ra­mad­hin and in­volved per­son­nel from the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion War­rants De­part­ment.