A 20-year-old Venezue­lan woman was res­cued and two sus­pects were held fol­low­ing a re­port­ed kid­nap­ping near Kel­ly Vil­lage, Ca­roni, on Fri­day.

Po­lice said of­fi­cers re­spond­ed to a call around 1 pm near Rain­bow Su­per­mar­ket, where a 28-year-old in­for­mant point­ed to a ve­hi­cle leav­ing the scene and shout­ed at the of­fi­cers that the oc­cu­pants “now take my broth­er and them.”

Dur­ing a pur­suit, one sus­pect al­leged­ly point­ed a dark ob­ject re­sem­bling a firearm at the of­fi­cers, who fired in his di­rec­tion. The of­fi­cers lat­er in­ter­cept­ed a sil­ver Nis­san Ti­i­da, reg­is­tra­tion PCL 1092. The oc­cu­pants fled, leav­ing the vic­tim be­hind.

Both sus­pects ran in­to near­by bush­es but po­lice lat­er de­tained a sus­pect and with the help of the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Task Force North, ap­pre­hend­ed a sec­ond sus­pect. No firearm was re­cov­ered and none of the sus­pects were shot.

The res­cued woman, iden­ti­fied as a cashier at Rain­bow Su­per­mar­ket, was un­harmed.

Cop seize 42 ki­los of cannabis, AR-15 ri­fle

Of­fi­cers of the North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Po­lice re­cov­ered an AR-15 ri­fle and a quan­ti­ty of cannabis dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion in the St Joseph dis­trict on Sat­ur­day.

Po­lice said the ex­er­cise was con­duct­ed be­tween 11 am and 4 pm by mem­bers of the Area West Task Force, North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment Ar­eas East and West and the Ca­nine Branch.

The of­fi­cers went to Caiman Road, St Joseph, where, while search­ing through a bushy area, they found three bags con­tain­ing 42 kilo­grammes of cannabis. The of­fi­cers al­so found one ri­fle loaded with a mag­a­zine.

The op­er­a­tion was ini­ti­at­ed by ACP Singh, Snr Supt Gift and Supt Jaikaran and co­or­di­nat­ed by ASP Bharath, ASP Pierre, In­sp. Pe­ters and Sgt. Pam­phile.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing.

Probe in­to claims of skele­tal re­mains

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the dis­cov­ery of skele­tal re­mains in Brazil Vil­lage on Fri­day evening.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, a res­i­dent went to the San Raphael Po­lice Sta­tion at about 6.30 pm and re­port­ed that he was at his home on So­ri­ah Trace, Brazil, around 3.30 pm, when he stum­bled up­on the re­mains.

Of­fi­cers lat­er vis­it­ed the premis­es but were un­able to lo­cate the re­mains be­cause of poor light­ing.