A civil lawyer and three other persons who were arrested on Saturday night at their homes across Trinidad will appear before a Port-of-Spain Magistrate on Monday on charges of trafficking in persons, kidnapping and false imprisonment arising out of the Transformed Life Ministry (TLM) bust in Arouca in October last year.
Attorney Lena Jaggernauth, 37, of Lot 38, Richard Avenue Peters Field, Chaguanas was arrested at a relative's home in Abidh Road, Felicity around 10:50 p.m on Saturday by officers of the Special Operations Response Team(SORT) after a warrant was executed at her home by Corporal Batson. Jaggernath was later charged with trafficking in persons.
She is the daughter of Indra Jaggernauth who had been charged with a similar offence on Friday last together with Pastor Glen Awong, who was additionally charged with kidnapping and false imprisonment and appeared before an Arima Magistrate last Friday.
They were later granted bail of $300,000 and $.9m respectively.
In an operation coordinated by Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith and SORT head, Sgt Mark Hernandez police also arrested Robert Andrews, 70, at his Ceylon Site Building 2A North Post Road home in Diego Martin around 9:40 p.m on Saturday.
Andrews an employee of TLM was charged with kidnapping and trafficking in persons.
An hour later SORT also arrested another employee of TLM Anthony Marchan,74, on the TLM compound at Arouca.
Marchan, of Prizgar Lands, Laventille was later charged with trafficking in persons and kidnapping.
Earlier that night SORT officers also arrested Cheryl Kalicharan Beharry at her Bethlehem Park home in Chase Village, Chaguanas. Beharry, who is the mother of the victim Selwyn Beharry was charged with trafficking in persons, false imprisonment and kidnapping.
All the charges were laid in relation to Selwyn Beharry, the victim, for an incident which allegedly occurred sometime between January 2019 and July 2019.
