Sascha Wil­son

Se­nior Re­porter

sascha.wil­son@guardian.co.tt

A 30-year-old man was yes­ter­day be­ing treat­ed at hos­pi­tal for gun­shot in­juries fol­low­ing an in­ci­dent in Moru­ga.

Po­lice said that at about 9.15 am on Wednes­day, the Ch­agua­nas res­i­dent was walk­ing along an un­de­vel­oped stretch of Blas Cha Cha Road with two oth­er men—a 42-year-old se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer and a 36-year-old elec­tri­cal con­trac­tor. The men were about 100 feet be­hind the vic­tim when they heard a loud ex­plo­sion and saw him fall to the ground.

They ran to his as­sis­tance and found him bleed­ing from wounds to his left ribs, nose and right fore­arm. They car­ried him out of the area and took him to the Princes Town Health Fa­cil­i­ty, where he was treat­ed be­fore be­ing trans­ferred to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal for fur­ther med­ical at­ten­tion. He was re­port­ed to be in sta­ble con­di­tion.

Ag Cpl Gopaul and a par­ty of of­fi­cers from the Moru­ga Po­lice Sta­tion, along with of­fi­cers of the South­ern Di­vi­sion Crime Scene Unit, vis­it­ed the scene. How­ev­er, noth­ing of ev­i­den­tial val­ue was re­cov­ered. In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.

Pen­sion­ers robbed by armed in­trud­ers

Two fe­male pen­sion­ers were robbed by bal­a­cla­va-wear­ing gun­men dur­ing a home in­va­sion in Princes Town on Wednes­day night.

Po­lice said that around 9.20 pm, a 67-year-old woman was down­stairs at her home when three ban­dits, two armed with guns and the oth­er with a cut­lass, con­front­ed her.

The as­sailants ran­sacked the area and stole $130 from her wal­let and a black Sam­sung A05 cell­phone. One ban­dit re­mained with her down­stairs while the oth­er two went up­stairs and robbed a 77-year-old pen­sion­er of $4,050, a white-gold Span­ish-link chain with an “S” pen­dant and a green Sam­sung A26 cell­phone.

The ban­dits then es­caped through bush­es at the back of the house.

PC Den­nis and a par­ty of of­fi­cers from the Princes Town CID vis­it­ed the scene. In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing.

Couri­er robbed dur­ing La Brea de­liv­ery

A couri­er was robbed of cash and sev­er­al pack­ages while mak­ing a de­liv­ery in La Brea on Wednes­day.

The 62-year-old man, who is em­ployed with JC Ap­par­el and is based at Brad­ford City Mall, Port-of-Spain, re­port­ed that be­tween 1 pm and 1.20 pm he went to Pierre Road to de­liv­er items to a cus­tomer iden­ti­fied as Melin­da.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, while re­ceiv­ing di­rec­tions from the cus­tomer and at­tempt­ing to turn his ve­hi­cle, two men emerged from near­by bush­es, point­ed firearms at him and or­dered him to stop.

One of the as­sailants struck him on the left side of the head with a pis­tol be­fore rob­bing him of $2,100 in cash, cloth­ing val­ued at $3,000, sev­er­al cas­es of bev­er­ages, a gold ring bear­ing the let­ter “B”, a Nau­ti­ca sling bag and jack­et, a deb­it card and a Sam­sung cell­phone.

The sus­pects then ran off.

Dou­bles ven­dor los­es $11,000 in Pe­nal rob­bery

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing two sep­a­rate rob­beries in south Trinidad that oc­curred ear­ly yes­ter­day.

Po­lice said a dou­bles ven­dor was robbed of more than $11,000 out­side his Pe­nal home at about 1.45 am.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, the ven­dor was prepar­ing to leave for work when he was con­front­ed by two men, one armed with a firearm, and a woman. The trio an­nounced a rob­bery and de­mand­ed mon­ey.

The vic­tim was tak­en in­to his bed­room, where two of the sus­pects ran­sacked the room be­fore steal­ing $11,200 in cash. The sus­pects es­caped through the back of the house and fled in an un­known di­rec­tion.

Po­lice con­duct­ed search­es in the area, but the sus­pects were not found. In­ves­ti­ga­tors al­so can­vassed the area for CCTV footage, but no cam­eras were ob­served.

In a sep­a­rate in­ci­dent, a bar­tender was prepar­ing to close a bar at the cor­ner of Coo­ra Road and Mary Street, Siparia, at about 1.55 am when four masked men dressed in dark cloth­ing en­tered the es­tab­lish­ment. One of the men was armed with a firearm.

The sus­pects de­mand­ed cash, al­co­hol and cig­a­rettes. The bar­tender re­port­ed that they stole ap­prox­i­mate­ly $1,800 in cash, a bot­tle of Hen­nessy co­gnac, a bot­tle of Ab­so­lut vod­ka, a bot­tle of Jose Cuer­vo tequi­la, a bot­tle of White Oak rum and a quan­ti­ty of cig­a­rettes be­fore es­cap­ing on foot along Coo­ra Road.

Of­fi­cers re­spond­ed and con­duct­ed search­es for the sus­pects, but no ar­rests were made. Crime scene in­ves­ti­ga­tors processed the scene and re­cov­ered fin­ger­prints.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to both in­ci­dents are on­go­ing.