Two arrested after PoS crime spree

According to reports, officers led by ASP Ajith Persad and Anthony Williams including Sgt Kennedy, Cpl Fernando and Constables Sookwah, Hoyte and WPC Mayers were on an exercise in the Port-of-Spain district when they responded to a report of a robbery at Erica Street at about 2 am.

When the police officers responded they saw a 57-year-old man with injuries about his body.

The man told police two men attempted to rob him but he put up a fight and the men escaped empty handed.

Police reports stated that the two suspects then went to Thomasine Street where the broke the windscreen of two vehicles, one belonging to a 38-year-old pastor, and stole cash and other valuables found in the car.

The men then robbed a woman in her 50s of cell phones, cash and other valuables, police said.

Acting on information, the police went to an abandoned building at Eastern Main Road, Laventille, where they found the two suspects and recovered all the stolen items.

The suspects were arrested and will be placed on an identification parade today before being charged with several offences.