Shane Su­perville

Three ban­dits were held min­utes af­ter they stole a 65-year-old woman’s hand­bag in St Anns ear­ly on Fri­day morn­ing.

Po­lice said the woman was on St Ann’s Road, at around 5.10 am when ban­dits snatched her bag.

The ban­dits got in­to a white Hyundai Ac­cent and sped off.

A re­port was made and of­fi­cers of the Port of Spain Di­vi­sion ini­ti­at­ed a “drag­net” across two di­vi­sions.

Po­lice in the area re­port­ed see­ing a car match­ing the de­scrip­tion of the ve­hi­cle dri­ving on the Mor­vant Old Road.

Po­lice fol­lowed the car to Do­ra­ta Street, where they in­ter­cept­ed it and searched the ve­hi­cle.

Of­fi­cers found the woman’s hand­bag in the front pas­sen­ger seat.

The two 20-year-olds and one 16-year-old who are from Mor­vant and Port of Spain were ar­rest­ed.

Po­lice from the Bel­mont CID are con­tin­u­ing en­quiries.

The re­sponse was led by Cpls Christo­pher, Oma­dath to­geth­er with PCs Blades, Bee­tam, Sam­my, Gan­goo, Aguillera and Leza­ma.