Sascha Wil­son

A Spe­cial Re­serve po­lice­man was yes­ter­day charged in con­nec­tion with the $.5 mil­lion armed rob­bery in Princes Town last Sun­day. The 38-year-old SRP was charged with two counts of rob­bery and pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion af­ter the po­lice re­ceived in­struc­tions from Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions Roger Gas­pard. The of­fi­cer, from Point Fortin, who pre­vi­ous­ly worked at the Court and Process de­part­ment at South Oropouche and Siparia po­lice sta­tions, is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a Princes Town mag­is­trate to­day. A po­lice re­port said around 11.45 am, three armed se­cu­ri­ty guards from G4S Se­cu­ri­ty went to So­cia­bank Sales Cen­tre at Craig­nish Vil­lage to re­plen­ish the au­to­mat­ed bank­ing ma­chine. They were about to place two mon­ey bags in the cu­bi­cle when two gun­men or­dered them to hand over the mon­ey bags and their guns. The gun­men then jumped in­to a wait­ing Nis­san Almera car, which sped off. The guards alert­ed a pass­ing po­lice car and the cops went in search of the get­away car. There was an ex­change of gun­fire be­tween the po­lice and the sus­pects, who es­caped in­to some bush­es. The mon­ey was not re­cov­ered. In­ves­ti­ga­tions were led by Sgt Hay­den Man­warin and charges were laid by PC Dookee of the Princes Town Po­lice Sta­tion.