Five of the eight pris­on­ers who es­caped from the Gold­en Grove prison some­time be­tween Tues­day night and Wednes­day morn­ing, have been re­cap­tured.

Pris­ons Com­mis­sion­er Ger­ard Wil­son con­firmed to Guardian Me­dia Lim­it­ed that the men were cap­tured Wednes­day af­ter­noon in Las Lo­mas.

They have been iden­ti­fied as: Mikhale Mo­hammed, Stef­fon Austin, Joshua Janet, Brent John­son and Ker­ry Valenti­no.

This fol­lows and mass search by prison of­fi­cers, po­lice and sol­diers Wednes­day, dur­ing which a Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty he­li­copter crashed in Windy Hill, Arou­ca.

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice had is­sued an All-Points Bul­letin for the in­mates who es­caped from the Re­mand Yard at Gold­en Grove Prison in Arou­ca.

Prison sources told Guardian Me­dia the men es­caped through a hole in the wall from their cell in the south up­per block of the prison.

They were dis­cov­ered miss­ing at 8.40 am to­day.

The es­capees have been iden­ti­fied as Ker­ry Valenti­no, At­i­ba Sealey, Joshua Janet, Olatun­ji Den­bow, Kyle Bel­grave, Stephen Austin, Brent John­son and Mikhale Mo­hammed.

Sources say there is on­go­ing con­struc­tion at the Re­mand Yard in which new toi­lets are be­ing in­stalled in cells.

The men, who were all in the same cell, are fac­ing charges rang­ing from mur­der to gun-re­lat­ed of­fens­es.

They were con­sid­ered armed and dan­ger­ous.

Mem­bers of the pub­lic had been asked to cir­cu­late the pho­tos pro­vid­ed and to con­tact the near­est po­lice sta­tion if they saw the es­capees, or had any in­for­ma­tion that could lead to their re­cap­ture.