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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Two held with crocus bag of spent shells

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Two scrap-iron scav­engers are now in po­lice cus­tody af­ter be­ing ar­rest­ed with thou­sands of rounds of spent am­mu­ni­tion shells on Wednes­day evening.The two men, ages 27 and 37, of Pe­tit Bourg, San Juan, and Sev­enth Av­enue, Mal­ick, Barataria, were ar­rest­ed around 7 pm by of­fi­cers of the North­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force led by In­sp Mark Ma­haraj.Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, po­lice were on pa­trol on Or­ange Grove Road, St Au­gus­tine, and no­ticed the two men, dri­ving in a white pick-up truck be­hav­ing sus­pi­cious­ly.Po­lice fol­lowed their ve­hi­cle and even­tu­al­ly stopped it near a bar on Dook­iesingh Street.The two sus­pects were ar­rest­ed af­ter po­lice found a cro­cus bag filled with the spent am­mu­ni­tion in the front seat of the ve­hi­cle.

Po­lice said the am­mu­ni­tion was of var­i­ous cal­i­bres and in­clud­ed rounds used in hand­guns, shot­guns and in high-pow­ered as­sault ri­fles.In­ves­ti­ga­tors not­ed that while the shell cas­ings were vir­tu­al­ly use­less, they were still clas­si­fied as am­mu­ni­tion un­der the Firearms Act and as such at­tract­ed a sim­i­lar charge to live rounds of am­mu­ni­tion.Po­lice said while be­ing ques­tioned, both men ad­mit­ted they were on their way to a scrap-iron deal­er in Spring Vil­lage, Val­sayn, where they were plan­ning to sell the spent shells.They were be­ing in­ter­ro­gat­ed up to late yes­ter­day by de­tec­tives of the St Joseph Po­lice Sta­tion who were try­ing to as­cer­tain the source of the shells.Po­lice be­lieve, be­cause of the large quan­ti­ty and the type of am­mu­ni­tion re­cov­ered, the men most like­ly ob­tained their stash from a law en­force­ment of­fi­cer with ac­cess to shoot­ing ranges used by the po­lice or De­fence Force.

The duo will spend the rest of the Labour Day/Cor­pus Christi long week­end in po­lice cus­tody and will ap­pear in the Tu­na­puna Mag­is­trates Court on Mon­day to an­swer charges of am­mu­ni­tion pos­ses­sion.Sgt Har­ri­lal, PCs Good­ing, Grif­fith, Per­sad and Abra­ham were in­volved in the ex­er­cise and are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

Teacher held for­sex­u­al as­sault on stu­dent

A 44-year-old sec­ondary school teacher from south Trinidad will ap­pear be­fore a Rio Claro Mag­is­trate on Mon­day af­ter be­ing charged with mo­lest­ing a male pupil.The teacher was ar­rest­ed on Wednes­day af­ter­noon af­ter the 16-year-old stu­dent at the Rio Claro East Sec­ondary School re­port­ed the in­ci­dent to po­lice when school was dis­missed.Ac­cord­ing to the stu­dent's re­port, he was wait­ing at the side of the road when the teacher passed by in his car and of­fered him a lift.He got in­to the car and told po­lice when they were dri­ving along the Tabaquite Road to­wards Rio Claro the teacher be­gan mak­ing sex­u­al ad­vances to­wards him.

The stu­dent said he be­gan to protest when the teacher put his hand on his leg and then touched his pe­nis.Af­ter he ob­ject­ed the teacher de­sist­ed for the rest of the trip, how­ev­er, when they ar­rived at the school the teacher re­sumed with his sex­u­al propo­si­tion­ing and again touched his pe­nis.When he got out of the car, the stu­dent re­port­ed the in­ci­dent to the school's prin­ci­pal and lat­er at the Rio Claro Po­lice Sta­tion.The teacher was ar­rest­ed and was slapped with two charges of in­de­cent as­sault.East­ern Di­vi­sion Po­lice led by Snr Supt Sais­nar­ine Ma­habir were ex­pect­ed to in­ter­view oth­er male stu­dents, who the stu­dent said in­ter­act­ed reg­u­lar­ly with the teacher, as they be­lieve Wednes­day's in­ci­dent was not an iso­lat­ed event.In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.


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