Police recover stolen $19,000 and arrest suspect

RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

Se­nior Mul­ti­me­dia Re­porter

Po­lice ar­rest­ed a sus­pect and seized a mag­a­zine is­sued to the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice, as well as $19,000 in cash be­lieved to have been stolen from a ve­hi­cle in Mara­bel­la on Fri­day.

Po­lice said the theft oc­curred around 10.45 a.m. af­ter an em­ploy­ee of a con­struc­tion com­pa­ny with­drew $19,000 from Re­pub­lic Bank in Mara­bel­la. The man re­port­ed­ly parked near his home, leav­ing the cash in­side his ve­hi­cle. When he re­turned a short time lat­er, he dis­cov­ered the mon­ey was gone.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors re­viewed CCTV footage, which al­leged­ly showed the oc­cu­pants of a sil­ver Toy­ota Axio re­mov­ing the cash from the ve­hi­cle be­fore dri­ving away.

Po­lice said of­fi­cers of the Gas­par­il­lo Op­er­a­tions Team re­spond­ed quick­ly and, us­ing CCTV footage, tracked the stolen ve­hi­cle from the South­ern Di­vi­sion in­to the North­ern Di­vi­sion.

Based on in­for­ma­tion re­ceived, of­fi­cers found the Axio and searched the home of the reg­is­tered dri­ver in Phase 4, La Hor­quet­ta, where they found the 9mm mag­a­zine is­sued to the TTPS, along with 10 rounds of 9mm am­mu­ni­tion.

PC Sam­my is con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.