Ri­car­do Daniel, who was re­port­ed as hav­ing been kid­napped on Tues­day night, has been re­leased. His re­lease fol­lowed a po­lice op­er­a­tion in Laven­tille on Thurs­day night in which two peo­ple who re­port­ed­ly de­mand­ed a ran­som were ar­rest­ed. Daniel was found wan­der­ing in Lopinot Vil­lage, Arou­ca by in­ves­ti­ga­tors late Thurs­day night. He told them his ab­duc­tors did not harm him.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, around 10 pm on Thurs­day, of­fi­cers of the North East­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force (NEDTF) led by Cpl Sunil Bharath went to Snake Val­ley, Laven­tille and ar­rest­ed a 34-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman, both of whom are CEPEP em­ploy­ees. The cou­ple was re­port­ed­ly found in pos­ses­sion of a cell­phone which po­lice said was used to make the ran­som call to Daniel's par­ents.

On Tues­day night, his par­ents re­ceived a call say­ing he had been kid­napped. Po­lice sources said the caller de­mand­ed a $500,000 ran­som for Daniel's safe re­lease. No ran­som was paid. Daniel's fa­ther owns an au­to body shop on Old St Joseph Road in Laven­tille. Po­lice found Daniel's car aban­doned at 11th Street, Barataria, lat­er that night.

While un­der in­ter­ro­ga­tion by the An­ti-Kid­nap­ping Squad af­ter be­ing ar­rest­ed on Wednes­day night, the sus­pects told po­lice where Daniel was be­ing held. Up to late yes­ter­day, the sus­pects re­mained in cus­tody. ASP Stephen Grant is con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.