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Friday, June 27, 2025

Elderly couple, farmer beaten and robbed during Carlsen Field home invasions

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Rhondor Dowlat
378 days ago
20240615

An el­der­ly cou­ple, who opened the door to men claim­ing to be po­lice, were beat­en and robbed dur­ing a home in­va­sion ear­ly Thurs­day morn­ing in Carlsen Field.

Among the items stolen was a pel­let ri­fle. A po­lice re­port said at 8 pm Wednes­day, the hus­band, 65, and his wife, 63, locked up the house, lo­cat­ed on a farm, and went to sleep.

Around 3 am, the sleep­ing cou­ple was awak­ened by knock­ing and shouts of “po­lice, po­lice.”

The el­der­ly cou­ple opened the door and were ac­cost­ed by three men, in­clud­ing one who had a gun.

The ban­dits pushed the cou­ple in­side the house and be­gan beat­ing them about their head and face.

They then tied both vic­tims’ hands and robbed them of a Sam­sung 55-inch Smart tele­vi­sion val­ued at $4,600, a pres­sure wash­er worth $1,800, a Crafts­man pel­let ri­fle worth $4,500, a Sam­sung A30 cell­phone, and a Sam­sung A23 cell phone, which cost $1,700, and $6,000 in cash. The cou­ple’s blue-coloured Toy­ota Corol­la L-Tour­ing wag­on worth $35,000 was al­so stolen.

The men then went to the farm lo­cat­ed next door, where they woke up a 40-year-old man and robbed him.

The vic­tim’s hands were al­so tied up.

His Nis­san ve­hi­cle, val­ued at $28,000, and an undis­closed num­ber of ducks and pigs were stolen.

The sus­pects then sped away in the stolen ve­hi­cles.

In March, farm­ers and res­i­dents of Carlsen Field com­plained about the grow­ing num­ber of home in­va­sions.

Pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Farm­ers Union Shi­raz Khan said his wife, who was at home alone at the time, was robbed by armed ban­dits who threat­ened to cut off her fin­gers if she did not com­ply.

Boy, 14, robbed in St James

A 14-year-old boy was robbed of his cell phone in St James.

Po­lice said the teenag­er, from Diego Mar­tin, was stand­ing on Mu­cu­rapo Road at 8 am wait­ing on a taxi when he was ap­proached by a man armed with a knife who de­mand­ed his phone and valu­ables. 

The boy, fear­ful for his life, hand­ed over his cell phone, val­ued at $600. The sus­pect then ran off.  

—Rhon­dor Dowlat


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