Escaped prisoner recaptured

According to reports, officers from the Warrant Section in the Sangre Grande Police Station, led by Cpl Garcia and including PCs Kheerai, Smith and Cortez received information and went into a track about half mile into a forested area where they saw a makeshift camp and found Clifton Moses asleep.

He was arrested and handcuffed by officers who took him back to the Sangre Grande Police Station. He is expected to be charged with escaping lawful custody and assaulting a police officer.

On Tuesday at 1 pm, Moses who was awaiting transportation to be taken back to Remand Yard in the Golden Grove prisons, Arouca managed to escape from the cell at the police station.

He pushed down a police officer and ran out of the station.

Moses was on remand after being unable to raise bail for charges of house breaking and larceny.

He appeared in the Sangre Grande Magistrates’ court on Tuesday, hours before his escape.