Tobago robbery suspects held

Several suspects from east Trinidad have been detained in connection with two recent armed robberies in Tobago. Yesterday afternoon, they were placed on identification parades at the Scarborough Police Station. The suspects were reportedly nabbed at a popular guest house/restaurant establishment at Bon Accord in Tobago’s west end late Tuesday afternoon by officers of the Special Task Force. They are being interrogated in connection with the robbery of the NP Service Station at Carnbee.

The station was robbed by two gun-toting men around 1.40 pm last Sunday. There was also a robbery at Busy Foods Supermarket, Darrell Spring in Scarborough on Tuesday. In the gas station incident, two unmasked men armed with guns held up the attendant and escaped with the day’s sales of about $12,000 in a customer’s car. They later threw out the driver and took control of the car which was later recovered near the entrance to Canoe Bay Resort west along the Claude Noel Highway. Two days later, three men, also unmasked,  armed with guns, casually walked into Busy Foods around 2 pm and headed straight for the drawer with the money in the manager’s office.