Jensen La Vende

Three men–two aged 33 and a 17-year-old–were ar­rest­ed af­ter a high-speed chase from La Hor­quet­ta to Diego Mar­tin last Thurs­day.The vic­tim of a house­break­ing man­aged to un­tie him­self and called the North­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force (NDTF) af­ter two men broke in­to his girl­friend's Jacaran­da Road, La Hor­quet­ta, home around 10 pm.The men, one of whom had a gun, slapped the man and tied up every­one in the house be­fore rob­bing the house­hold of cash, elec­tron­ic items, ap­pli­ances and tools, which in­clud­ed a weedwack­er.

The men es­caped in a brown Nis­san B-14 and a green Almera. Po­lice spot­ted the cars and chased them from the La Hor­quet­ta to St Lu­cien Road, Diego Mar­tin. The NDTF of­fi­cers con­tact­ed their col­leagues at the West­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force, who joined the chase and cor­nered the men in Diego Mar­tin around 12.05 am on Fri­day.The men, a 33-year-old from Rich­plain, Diego Mar­tin, and the oth­er two from L'Anse Mi­tan Road, Care­nage, were ar­rest­ed and are to be placed on iden­ti­fi­ca­tion pa­rades.

In an un­re­lat­ed in­ci­dent mem­bers of the North Di­vi­sion, un­der the su­per­vi­sion of Snr Supt David Abra­ham and Supt Ho­sein, be­tween 11 pm on Thurs­day and 6 am Fri­day ar­rest­ed four men for pos­ses­sion of two guns and ten rounds of am­mu­ni­tion.

The men, who live at Mt Plasir Road, Cunu­pia, and Bushe Street, Curepe, were held with a Smith and Wes­son 9mm pis­tol and sev­en rounds of am­mu­ni­tion and a .380 Berret­ta and three rounds of am­mu­ni­tion. Po­lice were tipped off that the men had the guns and went in search of them at Mt Plasir, Cunu­pia.Po­lice al­so held four men in con­nec­tion with the dis­cov­ery of 125 grammes of mar­i­jua­na in Curepe and one sus­pect­ed sex­u­al of­fend­er at Bam­boo No 3, Val­sayn.