An­na-Lisa Paul

Se­nior Re­porter

an­na-lisa.paul@guardian.co.tt

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro is warn­ing those pro­vid­ing safe haven for the two men want­ed in con­nec­tion with the kid­nap­ping of Caribbean Air­lines pi­lot Daniel Kawall to de­sist in do­ing so.

“Do not get caught when we come for them,” Gue­var­ro said yes­ter­day.

“Tell them to turn them­selves in and make it eas­i­er on them­selves and for you! Do it now.”

Kawall, 59, of Palm Road, North Val­sayn, was res­cued from an apart­ment com­plex at Third Street, Mar­aval, on Sun­day.

Kawall was last seen and heard from on Sep­tem­ber 3.

Po­lice pur­sued sev­er­al leads on Sat­ur­day, which led them to the build­ing where Kawall was be­ing kept. Of­fi­cers from var­i­ous arms of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) stormed the lo­ca­tion and res­cued him.

One sus­pect was killed dur­ing a con­fronta­tion with of­fi­cers, while two oth­ers fled in­to the sur­round­ing hill­sides.

Al­though search­es con­tin­ued through­out Sun­day, Mon­day and yes­ter­day, of­fi­cers have not yet ap­pre­hend­ed the sus­pects, but a se­nior of­fi­cial as­sured they were pur­su­ing sev­er­al pos­i­tive leads.

Pro­vid­ing an up­date in re­sponse to ques­tions from Guardian Me­dia, Gue­var­ro la­belled kid­nap­pers as “cow­ards that op­er­ate in or­gan­ised groups and use in­tim­i­da­tion and fear on their vic­tims and their vic­tims’ fam­i­lies.”

He chal­lenged the kid­nap­pers to an­swer why they ran away when po­lice came af­ter them.

“If you are so bold and brazen to take some­one as a hostage, then use fear and vi­o­lence to in­tim­i­date their fam­i­lies and de­mand a ran­som, and you go so far to use their cred­it card to take mon­ey from their ac­counts that you didn’t work for, then you shouldn’t be run­ning and hid­ing all now,” he said.

Kawall’s gold Toy­ota Hilux was seen aban­doned along Holo­lo Road, Cas­cade, hours af­ter he went miss­ing – and was lat­er moved by his ab­duc­tors. It was lat­er found burnt out in Rousil­lac.

In a sep­a­rate in­ci­dent, po­lice are al­so still search­ing for miss­ing busi­ness­man Im­raz “Clubs” Ali.

Two groups of Hunters Search and Res­cue team mem­bers, led by Cap­tain Val­lence Ramb­harat, car­ried out land and sea search­es in Cen­tral Trinidad yes­ter­day.

Po­lice said one group searched the Gulf of Paria in the ar­eas where the Fe­lic­i­ty Riv­er, Ca­paro Riv­er and the Ca­roni Riv­er flow in­to the sea, while a sec­ond group searched Fe­lic­i­ty, En­deav­our, Cunu­pia and Freeport.

Ali, 60, of Char­lieville, was last seen on Sep­tem­ber 4. The fa­ther of three is the for­mer own­er of the Lazy Lizard, Rod­ney Road, En­deav­our, which he re­cent­ly sold. He al­so has in­ter­ests in Tri­ni Riv­er Lime, Matu­ra.

Ali re­port­ed­ly sold a car on the day he went miss­ing and asked the buy­er to drop him off in Bam­boo, where he al­leged­ly went to view oth­er ve­hi­cles for sale. When he failed to re­turn home, fam­i­ly mem­bers filed a miss­ing per­son’s re­port.

Rel­a­tives re­port­ed re­ceiv­ing a call from Ali’s cell phone around 2 am on Sep­tem­ber 5, when he was heard scream­ing be­fore the call abrupt­ly end­ed. He has not been heard from since.

Of­fi­cials close to the mat­ter yes­ter­day said Ali was “sick­ly” and need­ed med­ica­tion, as he had re­cent­ly un­der­gone hip surgery and was un­able to walk prop­er­ly.