Prisoner escapes from Arima hospital

A pris­on­er fac­ing charges of mur­der, at­tempt­ed mur­der and wound­ing with in­tent es­caped from the Ac­ci­dent and Emer­gency De­part­ment of the Ari­ma Health Fa­cil­i­ty on Fri­day evening, prompt­ing a mul­ti-agency man­hunt.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) said Rob­by Khadoo re­port­ed­ly es­caped from law­ful cus­tody at around 7:15 pm while re­ceiv­ing med­ical at­ten­tion at the fa­cil­i­ty.

Po­lice said Khadoo was last seen wear­ing a red T-shirt and light blue pants. His last known ad­dress is Na­pari­ma-Ma­yaro Road, Iere Vil­lage, Princes Town.

The TTPS said of­fi­cers, to­geth­er with the Trinidad and To­ba­go Prison Ser­vice and the Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force, have launched a co­or­di­nat­ed, in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion to re­cap­ture the es­capee.

Ac­cord­ing to the TTPS, in­ves­ti­ga­tors are ac­tive­ly pur­su­ing nu­mer­ous leads, and op­er­a­tional teams are as­sess­ing and act­ing on all in­for­ma­tion re­ceived about Khadoo's pos­si­ble where­abouts.

Po­lice urged mem­bers of the pub­lic not to ap­proach Khadoo, warn­ing that he should be con­sid­ered armed and dan­ger­ous.

Any­one with in­for­ma­tion on his where­abouts is asked to con­tact the TTPS at 999 or 555, the near­est po­lice sta­tion, as well as the Trinidad and To­ba­go Prison Ser­vice at 800-PRSN (7776), or Crime Stop­pers at 800-TIPS (8477).

Po­lice said all in­for­ma­tion re­ceived will be treat­ed with the strictest con­fi­dence.