4 nabbed after Debe robbery

Their escape was shortlived as police intercepted the getaway car in Chaguanas and recovered all of the stolen items.

Police also seized a Pietro Beretta pistol fitted with a magazine containing seven live rounds of .40 calibre ammunition which they believe was used during the robbery. The driver of the silver Nissan B 15 car, identified as a 52-year-old man of Lower Hillside, San Fernando, and his younger accomplices, aged 34, 22 and 20, all of Picton Road, Laventille were detained and are expected to be charged.

Ten cartoons of cigarettes and six cell phones which were also recovered.

According to a police report, at about 2.10 pm on Friday, Lystra Persad was in her supermarket at Ramai Trace, Debe when two men, one with a firearm, entered and announced a hold-up. They fled in the waiting vehicle.

Sgt Mohammed along with PCs Khan, Rajnath of the Chaguanas CID responded to a report. Twenty minutes later the vehicle was spotted by officers of the Highway Patrol Division proceeding north along the Solomon Hochoy Highway and was intercepted in the vicinity of the Chase Village Flyover. The vehicle was searched and the loaded weapon and stolen items retrieved. Once charged, the men will appear before a magistrate in the Chaguanas Court tomorrow.