Four home invasions reported across Trinidad

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing four sep­a­rate home in­va­sions re­port­ed in Freeport, Tal­paro, Princes Town and St Mary’s be­tween Sat­ur­day and Mon­day.

In Freeport, 68-year-old Dhan­patie Singh was in­side her home at Cal­cut­ta #4 around 2:15 p.m. on Mon­day when three men, all dressed in dark cloth­ing, en­tered and an­nounced a rob­bery.

One of the men was armed with a cut­lass.

The men es­caped with $1,000 in cash and a quan­ti­ty of gold jew­ellery.

Po­lice said ex­ten­sive in­ves­ti­ga­tions by the Freeport CID led to the ar­rest of a man iden­ti­fied as Prince Leg­ere, 23, of Cal­cut­ta Set­tle­ment, Freeport.

In Tal­paro, 89-year-old Gabriel Ed­wards was at his home at Joseph Lewis Trace around 10 a.m. on Mon­day when four masked men en­tered through a west­ern-side door.

Po­lice said Ed­wards was beat­en and robbed of a Rem­ing­ton 12-gauge shot­gun, 24 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion, $5,000 in cash and two cell­phones.

The men es­caped by run­ning west along the road.

In Princes Town, a 33-year-old man was re­port­ed­ly tied up in­side his home af­ter be­ing con­front­ed by an in­trud­er ear­ly Sun­day morn­ing.

Po­lice said Adri­an John se­cured his home at St Julien Vil­lage around 10 p.m. on Sat­ur­day and went to bed. Around 5 a.m. Sun­day, he was ac­cost­ed in his bed­room by a man wear­ing a white vest and dark pants.

The man al­leged­ly tied John’s hands and feet be­fore es­cap­ing.

John lat­er freed him­self and dis­cov­ered that $1,500 in cash was miss­ing from the house.

And in St Mary’s, two res­i­dents were con­front­ed in­side their home by two men who were al­leged­ly look­ing for gro­cery items they be­lieved had been stolen by one of the res­i­dents’ sons.

Po­lice said the in­ci­dent oc­curred around 5:30 p.m. on Sun­day at Gomez Trace, St Mary’s Vil­lage, Moru­ga Road.

One sus­pect was armed with an iron rod while the oth­er had a glass bot­tle. The men re­port­ed­ly fol­lowed one of the vic­tims through the house as she showed them that the items were not there.

They then es­caped through the front door and en­tered a ve­hi­cle parked near­by.

Po­lice said one sus­pect fit­ting the de­scrip­tion of the man armed with the iron rod was sub­se­quent­ly ar­rest­ed.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to all four in­ci­dents are con­tin­u­ing.