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The men were intercepted in a boat off Soldado Rock on Wednesday 3 February 2021. (Image courtesy MAPCARTA) Four men, three Venezuelans and an American, currently are in police custody following their capture by the Coast Guard on Wednesday, this week. The Police Service has confirmed that the men were intercepted by Coast Guard personnel in a boat off Soldado Rock, around 7:30 am, on Wednesday 3rd February 2021. The 44-year-old American, and the three Venezuelans, ages 30 to 48 years, were abo...

Six foreign nationals, who reportedly are from Margarita, Venezuela, are the latest detainees being held by the local authorities for illegal entry into Trinidad. According to official police reports, the six Venezuelans were detained by officers of the South Western Division Task Force during an anti-crime exercise on Thursday 28th January 2021. The Police Service says during the exercise, officers received information regarding persons entering the country illegally.  That information led th...

Cops raid Woodbrook party, 100 ticketed Monday 25 January 2021 A group of people arrested at a party at One Woodbrook Place early on Monday morning. PHOTO COURTESY TTPS A late-night raid at a nightclub at One Woodbrook Place, St James, on Sunday led to 100 people being detained, including the children of well-known businesspeople, police said. A police media release on Monday reported that members of the Western Division and the Special Operations Response Team (SORT) went to the Residence nigh...

MARK BASSANT At least 75 people were momentarily detained by police officers of the Special Operations Response Team (SORT) and officers of the Western Division Task Force, after officers swooped down on the popular Residence nightclub in One Woodbrook Place just before midnight on Sunday. Senior investigators told Guardian Media that police gained entry into the nightclub by breaking the chain lock to the door of the basement entrance just after 11:35 p.m. The operations were spearheaded by Se...

The compressed marijuana seized by Western Division police during the anti-crime exercise on Tuesday 19 January 2021. (Image: TTPS) A Diego Martin couple was arrested, and a firearm and a quantity of marijuana seized, by officers of the Western Division during an anti-crime exercise conducted in the district around 6 pm yesterday, Tuesday 19th January 2021. During the exercise, officers executed a search warrant at the Roxborough Extension home of a 36-year-old male suspect.  The search result...

Security guard shot, wounded in La Brea supermarket robbery Friday 15 January 2021 One of two bandits shot and wounded an unarmed security guard during a robbery at a Chinese supermarket in La Brea on Wednesday. Up to Thursday afternoon, the 45–year-old victim remained in a stable condition at the San Fernando General Hospital. The police did not give his name, but said he works with Travtech Security Services Ltd and lives at St Margaret’s Village in Claxton Bay. Police said shortly before...

On Saturday, police received intelligence that a ‘strange pirogue’ was off loading items off Thelma Beach, Blanchisseuse. They responded, searched the beach and surrounding areas, and found a black plastic bag hidden between some rocks. In the bag were 22 rectangular blocks containing marijuana, wrapped in plastic. The marijuana, which weighed 12.2 kilogrammes, was seized. No arrests were made in connection with the find. Meanwhile, officers of the Western Division seized 495.5 grammes of ...

A MAN was shot dead at his Diego Martin bar/casino on Tuesday night during a robbery. Police said Lucius John, 35, who lived at Simon Trace, Gopaul Avenue, Diego Martin, was sitting in a back room of the LA Amusement Pub along Diego Martin Main Road around 7.30 p.m. when a gunman attempted to enter. John saw him and alerted everyone in the bar that there was a gunman outside. Everyone ran out but John remained inside. John’s relatives who did not want to be named said his alert on Tuesday ...

POLICE shot and killed two young men in Dibe, Long Circular, yesterday, taking the number of people killed by police this year so far to 56. In this latest incident, police said the men fired at them and they fired back. Relatives of one of the men however claimed otherwise. Killed were Jeremiah Ellis, 18, and Shane Moses, 20. Police said around 5 a.m. yesterday officers from the St James Police Station and Western Division Task Force went to Tractor Hill, off Dibe, Long Circular, where they at...

Family of man killed by police confused over circumstances Shane Moses, 21. - Antoinette Ellis, the mother of 18-year-old Jeremiah Ellis – one of two men killed during a police-involved shooting in Long Circular, St James early on Monday morning, said she is confused and heartbroken over the death of her son. Police said members of the Western Division Task Force went to the younger Ellis Tractor Hill home off Dibe Road to search the house at around 4 am when they were shot at by someone ins...