Po­lice have iden­ti­fied a 27-year-old PH taxi dri­ver and his 30-year-old ac­com­plice as the men in­volved in a string of kid­nap­ping and rape of­fences in cen­tral and north Trinidad. The sus­pects, who have sev­er­al ad­dress­es in La Hor­quet­ta and San­gre Grande, were iden­ti­fied by vic­tims who were kid­napped and sex­u­al­ly as­sault­ed.

They were al­so iden­ti­fied in sev­er­al out­stand­ing lar­ce­ny and rob­bery of­fences. Po­lice said they learned that one of the sus­pects held in St Joseph last week Thurs­day, was out on bail for two pend­ing rape charges. A se­nior of­fi­cer of the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion said they feared that rape sus­pects who were re­leased on bail were re­turn­ing to so­ci­ety con­tin­u­ing to com­mit these crimes.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, po­lice of­fi­cers led by Supt John­ny Abra­ham, In­sp Wayne Lawrence and Sgt Su­san John held the men in a car, pre­tend­ing to be a taxi dri­ver and a pas­sen­ger. Fol­low­ing their ar­rests, the of­fi­cers searched the men's homes and found a num­ber of mo­bile phones, flash dri­ves, lap­tops and dig­i­tal cam­eras, which they be­lieve were stolen.

Po­lice said some of the dig­i­tal cam­eras con­tained im­ages of pos­si­ble vic­tims and one of the flash dri­ves had in­for­ma­tion sim­i­lar to one which was re­port­ed stolen from a house in Man­zanil­la, four years ago. Two Nis­san Sun­ny B14 cars were al­so re­cov­ered which po­lice said might have been from re­cent thefts at shop­ping malls in Ch­agua­nas.

The men are ex­pect­ed be placed on a se­ries of iden­ti­fi­ca­tion pa­rades at var­i­ous sta­tions around the coun­try. Po­lice are ask­ing vic­tims of sim­i­lar crimes to con­tact or come to the Ch­agua­nas Po­lice Sta­tion to iden­ti­fy the stolen items.