A 23-year-old man from Princes Town has been re­mand­ed in­to cus­tody af­ter be­ing charged in con­nec­tion with a home in­va­sion that left a 24-year-old res­i­dent in­jured dur­ing the ear­ly hours of Sat­ur­day, May 30.

Po­lice said the in­ci­dent oc­curred around 5 am when the vic­tim awoke in his bed­room and found a man armed with a knife. A strug­gle broke out and the vic­tim sus­tained mi­nor in­juries be­fore the sus­pect fled.

Of­fi­cers from the Princes Town Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment and the Princes Town Po­lice Sta­tion re­spond­ed to the scene, car­ried out en­quiries, and in­ter­viewed wit­ness­es in the area.

The sus­pect was lat­er found a short dis­tance away and ar­rest­ed. He was iden­ti­fied by the vic­tim, po­lice said.

The sus­pect ap­peared be­fore Mas­ter Sookraj Goswa­mi at South Court A on Fri­day, June 5, where he was not called up­on to plead.

Bail was de­nied and a sched­ul­ing or­der was is­sued. The mat­ter has been ad­journed to De­cem­ber 18.

Man with 191 war­rants among six held in

San­gre Grande

A 44-year-old man who was the sub­ject of 191 out­stand­ing main­te­nance af­fil­i­a­tion war­rants was among six peo­ple ar­rest­ed dur­ing a po­lice ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in San­gre Grande and Va­len­cia.

The op­er­a­tion ran from Thurs­day to Fri­day and end­ed around noon.

It was co­or­di­nat­ed by Snr Supt Eti­enne and In­sp Cal­en­der, and su­per­vised by Ag Sgt Bab­wah. The team in­clud­ed PCs Pope, Mi­ran­da and Khan, along with WPC Mod­este of the War­rant Sec­tion at the San­gre Grande Po­lice Sta­tion.

A to­tal of six peo­ple were ar­rest­ed dur­ing the ex­er­cise. This in­clud­ed three in­di­vid­u­als from San­gre Grande: a 44-year-old man of Ram­per­sad Trace, Ve­ga de Oropouche, who had been evad­ing po­lice in re­la­tion to 191 war­rants; a 52-year-old of La Au­ro­ra; and a 34-year-old of Fos­ter Road.

Al­so ar­rest­ed were a 32-year-old man of Palm Road, Va­len­cia, and two 27-year-olds from the East­ern Main Road, Va­len­cia.

In to­tal, 196 war­rants were ex­e­cut­ed dur­ing the ex­er­cise.

Po­lice said the op­er­a­tion was in­ci­dent-free.