Burglary at Chief of Defence Staff’s home; bottles of wine stolen

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a bur­glary at the home of the Chief of De­fence Staff (CDS), Com­modore Don Po­lo, which oc­curred last Fri­day.

Re­ports in­di­cate that Com­modore Po­lo re­turned to his St Clair res­i­dence at ap­prox­i­mate­ly 8.30 pm on June 19 and lat­er re­tired to bed.

He was re­port­ed­ly alert­ed at around 9.30 am the fol­low­ing morn­ing af­ter notic­ing that the tail­gate of his wife’s Vol­vo mo­tor­car had been left open.

Up­on in­spect­ing the prop­er­ty, Com­modore Po­lo al­leged­ly dis­cov­ered that a cup­board in a bar area on the west­ern side of the yard had been opened, with sev­er­al bot­tles of wine miss­ing.

Fur­ther en­quiries sug­gest that en­try and ex­it were gained by scal­ing the west­ern wall of the premis­es.

Trinidad and To­ba­go re­mains un­der a State of Emer­gency.