RHON­DOR DOWLAT-ROS­TANT

A 57-year-old man was ar­rest­ed by po­lice of­fi­cers af­ter he went on a ram­page at the home of his ex-wife, de­stroy­ing sev­er­al items and lay­ing threats against her and their chil­dren, on Sun­day.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, at about 7:30 pm, the al­leged of­fend­er (of Bas­ta Hall Vil­lage Cou­va and Plum Mi­tan Vil­lage, Biche) went to the home of his ex-wife in Bas­ta Hall Vil­lage, Cou­va, rough­ly 200 me­tres away from his home.  There, he had an al­ter­ca­tion with sev­er­al oth­er fam­i­ly mem­bers in­clud­ing his ex-wife, his daugh­ter and son in law. At the time he was armed with a cut­lass and caused dam­age to the front and rear wind­screen of a sil­ver Nis­san Almera.  The sus­pect re­port­ed­ly had chopped it, caus­ing dam­age to the ex­tent of $1,500. He al­so re­port­ed­ly made threats to kill the fam­i­ly mem­bers.

The man is said to have left the lo­ca­tion and re­turned ten min­utes lat­er, armed with a firearm, mak­ing fur­ther threats to kill; how­ev­er, he was dis­armed by his ex-wife.

Of­fi­cers of the Cou­va CID and the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Task Force Area South re­spond­ed and met with the vic­tims, who lat­er hand­ed over a re­volver and five bul­lets that had been tak­en from the man.

The of­fi­cers then went to the al­leged of­fend­er's home where he was ar­rest­ed, and a quan­ti­ty of pel­lets and a cut­lass found in his pos­ses­sion were seized.

Po­lice said he was un­able to pro­vide the rel­e­vant doc­u­ments for the pel­lets.

Po­lice say the man is a known drug and sex of­fend­er and has two out­stand­ing war­rants on file. 

He cur­rent­ly is in po­lice cus­tody.