Eliz­a­beth Gon­za­les

To­ba­go po­lice are on the hunt for three masked ban­dits who ter­rorised a 10-year-old boy dur­ing a brazen home in­va­sion in Carn­bee on Thurs­day.

Around 10 a.m., the child was alone in his bed­room when two men stormed in­to the house—one of them wear­ing a blue jack­et with grey stripes and armed with what ap­peared to be a firearm. The man point­ed the weapon at the boy and jabbed him with it, leav­ing the child in fear for his life.

The in­trud­ers ran­sacked the room and stole a small sum of cash along with a gold chain. They then forced the boy in­to an­oth­er bed­room, where they took sev­er­al pairs of brand­ed sneak­ers, gold jew­ellery, and over TT$5,000 in cash. In a third bed­room, they re­port­ed­ly made off with ad­di­tion­al gold jew­ellery and large amounts of both TT and US cur­ren­cy—al­to­geth­er es­ti­mat­ed at over $40,000 in stolen valu­ables.

Be­fore flee­ing through the back door, the two men joined a third ac­com­plice down­stairs. They or­dered the boy to stay put as they es­caped.

Of­fi­cers from the Shir­van Road and Scar­bor­ough Po­lice Sta­tions re­spond­ed, and the scene was processed by crime scene in­ves­ti­ga­tors.