Crime Watch host Ian Al­leyne ven­tured to Point Fortin this week to ap­pre­hend a fugi­tive who had evad­ed cap­ture for some time.Ti­ba David was want­ed for al­leged­ly chop­ping his girl­friend Keisha Mitchell, who is cur­rent­ly in a safe house. David, who hid in the for­est for over a month in Point Fortin, sur­ren­dered to Al­leyne and Crime Watch of­fi­cials af­ter Al­leyne con­tact­ed him by phone.David is now in po­lice cus­tody.

In an­oth­er break­through case, Al­leyne stopped at the scene where po­lice had in­ter­cept­ed a ve­hi­cle near Char­lieville, Ch­agua­nas.The oc­cu­pants of the car were thieves want­ed by po­lice and a large amount of un­der­wear and op­ti­cal items were found in the ve­hi­cle.Al­leyne praised Cen­tral po­lice for a job well done.How­ev­er, the break­through was due to the Crime Watch team who first aired the footage of the thieves com­mit­ting the act.

Af­ter re­ceiv­ing in­for­ma­tion from a re­li­able source, Al­leyne and his team were able to pass on the in­for­ma­tion to the po­lice and the ar­rests were made.The sus­pects have since ap­peared in court and were sen­tenced to two years' hard labour.In an­oth­er case, Al­leyne again called on the pub­lic for in­for­ma­tion which could lead to the ar­rest of a man want­ed in con­nec­tion with an as­sault. The sus­pect was caught on cam­era, at a pop­u­lar bar in Port-of-Spain, smash­ing a bot­tle in­to a man's face.

Al­leyne al­so aired video of a woman caught on cam­era steal­ing cloth­ing at a pop­u­lar bou­tique in Ari­ma. With­in min­utes of air­ing the video, the Crime Watch host was able to iden­ti­fy the sus­pect, whose rel­a­tives called in and said they would bring her in.Al­leyne is al­so search­ing for sus­pects re­spon­si­ble for the theft of over $175,000 in jew­ellery and oth­er items, in­clud­ing an Ap­ple Ipad and Sam­sung Tablets at Es­per­ance Vil­lage, San Fer­nan­do. Any­one with in­for­ma­tion is asked to call Crime Watch.

Masked men, mean­while, de­stroyed and burned two ve­hi­cles at the own­ers' res­i­dence, 123 Pa­paya Cir­cu­lar, Dyette Es­tate, Cunu­pia.Al­leyne vis­it­ed the home and in­ter­viewed the own­er and is now hot on the trail of the sus­pects. Al­leyne stat­ed live on the air, "All yuh thought ya mash up the cam­era but I cleaned it up and I am com­ing for you."The Crime Watch host al­so aired dis­turb­ing footage of a rob­bery at the High Style Bar at Kel­ly Vil­lage, Pi­ar­co.

Two sus­pects, a male and fe­male of African de­scent with Ras­ta hair­styles, ran in­to the bar and then as­sault­ed and robbed its own­er of over $35,000 worth of al­co­hol and jew­el­ry. The bar own­er, who was tied up dur­ing the in­ci­dent, con­tact­ed Crime Watch and gave his re­port to Al­leyne who quick­ly ar­rived on the scene and re­cov­ered and cleaned up the sur­veil­lance footage. As the video was be­ing aired, Al­leyne warned the sus­pects to turn them­selves in to the po­lice. In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.

Break­throughs

A sus­pect by the name of Amir was iden­ti­fied in con­nec­tion with a rob­bery at Ken­ny's mi­ni mart at 81 Be­ju­cal Road, Cunu­pia.

Un­solved Mys­ter­ies

A Maz­da B2500 ve­hi­cle, li­cense plate no TCB 3641, was stolen from the Trinci­ty Mall car park on Au­gust 17, 2014, be­tween the hours of 3 pm and 6 pm. The ve­hi­cle's own­er, Keenan May­nard, came on the set seek­ing Al­leyne's help.