Four peo­ple have been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with an armed rob­bery at a busi­ness place lo­cat­ed along South Cen­tral Road in the vicin­i­ty of the Dun­lop Round­about, Point Fortin, which oc­curred at about 10:00 am on Mon­day.

The Po­lice Ser­vice says the men, aged 21 to 25 years, will be charged with rob­bery with ag­gra­va­tion. It is urg­ing the pub­lic to re­main vig­i­lant and re­port any sus­pi­cious ac­tiv­i­ty to the near­est po­lice sta­tion or via the TTPS emer­gency hot­lines.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, two vic­tims—a 52-year-old woman and a 59-year-old man, both self-em­ployed and res­i­dents of Clarke Road, Pe­nal—were con­duct­ing busi­ness when they were ap­proached by two un­masked men.

The vic­tims told po­lice one of the sus­pects was armed with a firearm.

The as­sailants re­port­ed­ly robbed the vic­tims of TT$800 in cash and a black Sam­sung mo­bile phone val­ued at TT$1,000 be­fore flee­ing the scene in a gold Nis­san Almera. They ap­peared to be pro­ceed­ing in the di­rec­tion of the high­way.

The TTPS says a swift broad­cast of the ve­hi­cle’s de­scrip­tion was made by of­fi­cers of the South­west­ern Di­vi­sion Op­er­a­tions Cen­tre (SWDOC).

Of­fi­cers of the Oropouche Po­lice Sta­tion and the South­west­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force quick­ly in­ter­cept­ed the sus­pect ve­hi­cle in the vicin­i­ty of the Guapo Round­about.

Four male sus­pects were ar­rest­ed dur­ing the op­er­a­tion: a 25-year-old man, of Mor­vant; a 21-year-old man of Oropouche; a 22-year-old man, of Aripero; and a 21-year-old man of St Barbs

The ve­hi­cle used in the rob­bery was seized and con­veyed to the Point Fortin Po­lice Sta­tion for fur­ther pro­cess­ing.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing and charges are ex­pect­ed to be laid in due course.