OCNU ‘kidnaps’ Williamsville man

BELIEVING his son had been kidnapped after a carload of men claiming to be police bundled him into a car and sped off, a 56-year-old man made a report to the Gasparillo Police Station. The next day he was told that the Organised Crime and Narcotic Unit (OCNU) arrested his son and that he was being held at the Central Police Station in Port-of-Spain, where he would be charged with trafficking cocaine. “They found nothing on my son. He not into those things,” the father told Newsday yesterday from his Kumar Village home in Williamsville.

In tears, the man said he went to the Gasparillo Police Station and told them what had happened, hours after the incident on Thursday. He said the police called various station trying to locate his son, but were unsuccessful. “The police say they find it funny that my son was arrested and no one informed them about it,” he said. “I left the station not knowing where my son was or who had him. When I went back home, I told everybody that it looked like my son was kidnapped,” he said.

He said yesterday he called the OCNU and was told that his son will appear in the Port-of-Spain Magistrates’ Court today charged with trafficking cocaine. He said he was unable to work because he had back surgery and also suffered with diabetes. “My son is the breadwinner in the family. He takes care of me, my wife, daughter, and two grandchildren. Almost five years ago he was charged for housebreaking, but since then he behaving himself. “When they rub him down they eh find nothing. I do not understand. We have no money to hire a lawyer or take bail,” the crying man added.