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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Cops to question Bond workers over arms haul

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Rhondor Dowlat-Rostant
1533 days ago
20210427
The large cache of arms and ammunition seized at the Piarco International Airport Bond last Thursday.

The large cache of arms and ammunition seized at the Piarco International Airport Bond last Thursday.

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RHON­DOR DOWLAT-ROS­TANT

Scores of work­ers at the Bond lo­cat­ed at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port, in­clud­ing Cus­toms bro­kers, are to be ques­tioned as part of the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the ma­jor guns and am­mu­ni­tion dis­cov­ery last Thurs­day night.

A se­nior po­lice of­fi­cer, speak­ing un­der the con­di­tion of anonymi­ty yes­ter­day, said senders and re­cip­i­ents of il­le­gal firearms and am­mu­ni­tion were us­ing false names and ad­dress­es, mak­ing it hard to trace the per­pe­tra­tors.

“It is be­lieved the pack­ages are be­ing tak­en by work­ers from these bonds and they are the ones tak­ing it out to the re­al re­cip­i­ents. They are the ones who know who these peo­ple are and would be able to lead the po­lice to them,” the of­fi­cer said.

In an im­me­di­ate re­sponse to the bust last week, Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith said the seizure was “a big dent in­to the il­le­gal firearm/am­mu­ni­tion trade through le­git­i­mate ports of en­try.”

Mean­while, for­mer Na­tion­al Op­er­a­tions Cen­tre head Garvin Heer­ah yes­ter­day said se­ri­ous con­sid­er­a­tion now had to be made re­gard­ing all ports in T&T.

“This was at the air­port but we must be equal­ly con­cerned for the sea­ports,” Heer­ah said.

“As we have seen, this was via a le­git­i­mate im­port-ex­port trade process—the con­tain­er busi­ness. There­fore, an es­ca­lat­ed vig­i­lance should al­so be en­hanced at all ports.”

Thurs­day night’s bust net­ted 30 firearms and 762 rounds of as­sort­ed am­mu­ni­tion, all from the US.

Ef­forts to reach Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds were un­suc­cess­ful.


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