The 31-year-old gang leader held in con­nec­tion with the mur­der of se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer Bert Clarke and mul­ti-mil­lion-dol­lar rob­bery in­volv­ing Sen­tinel Se­cu­ri­ty Ser­vices has been re­leased from cus­tody.The sus­pect, of Beetham Gar­dens, was ar­rest­ed by the In­ter-Agency Task Force near his home on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.He was de­tained at the Bel­mont Po­lice Sta­tion and ques­tioned by de­tec­tives of the Crim­i­nal Gang and In­tel­li­gence Unit, who re­leased him around 3.20 pm on Mon­day.

Po­lice sources said the sus­pect was ques­tioned about the rob­bery, which took place on the Churchill-Roo­sevelt High­way in Ma­coya, as well gang ac­tiv­i­ty in east Port-of-Spain.Source said in­ves­ti­ga­tors did not have suf­fi­cient ev­i­dence and did not gain enough in­for­ma­tion while in­ter­ro­gat­ing the sus­pect to charge him for the rob­bery or any oth­er crim­i­nal of­fence. No oth­er sus­pect had been ar­rest­ed up to late yes­ter­day.

Around 4.30 am on No­vem­ber 27, armed rob­bers at­tacked the pan­el van be­long­ing to Sen­tinel Se­cu­ri­ty Ser­vices and made off with $17 mil­lion in lo­cal cur­ren­cy and US$150,000. The couri­er ser­vice was head­ing to Pi­ar­co Air­port to trans­port the mon­ey to banks in To­ba­go.Clarke, 59, of Bre­gon Park, D'Abadie, was shot dead while the dri­ver es­caped af­ter run­ning and hid­ing in bush across the high­way.The dri­ver was de­tained by po­lice for sev­er­al days af­ter the heist and was even­tu­al­ly re­leased.

Af­ter grab­bing the loot, the rob­bers es­caped in a white SUV which was lat­er found aban­doned near Mil­len­ni­um Park, Trinci­ty, and an­oth­er get­away car, a Nis­san Almera, was found else­where. All three ve­hi­cles were re­port­ed stolen.