An Arima man has been arrested after he tried to evade police in a car that contained over half a million dollars in marijuana following an exercise that started last night and ended early Tuesday morning.
00:00An Ariba man has been arrested after he tried to evade police in a car that contained over half a million dollars in marijuana
00:06following an exercise that started last night and ended early this morning.
00:11A TTPS media release indicated that officers of the Northern Division Task Force were conducting several exercises and surveillance in the division.
00:19Police say they were monitoring a blue Toyota Soluna heading north along Subaru Street in Malabar.
00:25The driver attempted to evade police, but was eventually intercepted.
00:29Upon searching the vehicle, police found 37 packages of marijuana weighing some 19.2 kilograms
00:37with an estimated street value of $565,000.
00:43Later in the operation, the team received further information which led them to an abandoned structure on Marie Street in Calvary, Arima
00:51where they discovered a revolver containing five rounds of ammunition.
00:57Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth in local and foreign currency and a quantity of jewellery were stolen from a penal businesswoman
01:06early on Monday morning during a home invasion.
01:09According to police reports, the 59-year-old victim went to bed on Sunday and was awoken around midnight when her dog started barking.
01:17Taramati Jagisar said she was hooked up to an oxygen machine which she uses at night.
01:23When four masked men, three men and a woman, four masked people, three men and a woman
01:28entered her bedroom and robbed her of her money and her jewellery.
01:54She says her hands and feet were tied and her attackers, using two of her cutlasses,
02:01ensured she stayed in place until they were finished ransacking the home.
02:06All she could tell was that the bandits spoke Spanish.
02:09A licensed firearm, hundreds of thousands of dollars in T.T.U.S. and Canadian currency and all of her jewellery were taken.
02:24They empty everything.
02:28Jagisar says the bandits took all of her keys so she remained locked in her home from that time
02:34until her signals and shouts through a window were heard by a neighbour who got up around 6 a.m.
02:40Investigations are ongoing.
02:43A 37-year-old woman was assaulted and robbed in Santa Cruz on Monday in yet another home invasion.
02:52The latest incident took place around 8 a.m. along Sun Valley Extension.
02:56Police say the woman was walking towards her car, which was parked in her front yard,
03:00when she was confronted by two masked men.
03:03One of the men was said to be holding a firearm.
03:06Both suspects then took the victim inside of her home, tied her hands and feet with masking tape and electric cords
03:13and proceeded to ransack the premises.
03:17The suspect stole several items of value, including two laptops, an iPad and a Nintendo Switch,
03:22before they entered the woman's Prado and drove off.
03:25The victim was eventually able to free herself and notify the police.
03:29The Prado was later recovered in the Port of Spain area.
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