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Monday, July 14, 2025

Mayaro man, 34 Venezuelans arrested

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1398 days ago
20210914

Thir­ty-four Venezue­lans were ar­rest­ed when po­lice of­fi­cers ob­served a group con­sist­ing of 34 Venezue­lans (19 adults and 15 mi­nors) on the shore car­ry­ing quan­ti­ties of lug­gage. Up­on see­ing the of­fi­cers, the mem­bers of the group at­tempt­ed to hide in a near­by aban­doned struc­ture but were held and placed in­to quar­an­tine. Im­mi­gra­tion of­fi­cials were sub­se­quent­ly con­tact­ed. The fol­low­ing is a press re­lease from the TTPS:

A Ma­yaro man and 34 Venezue­lans were held and quar­an­tined by of­fi­cers of the East­ern Di­vi­sion dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in Ma­yaro yes­ter­day.

Of­fi­cers con­duct­ed the ex­er­cise be­tween 3:30 pm and 4:20pm on Mon­day 13th Sep­tem­ber, 2021 dur­ing which they con­duct­ed sur­veil­lance of the coast­line in the vicin­i­ty of Bel Air Road, Ma­yaro.

Dur­ing the ex­er­cise, the of­fi­cers ob­served a group con­sist­ing of 34 Venezue­lans (19 adults and 15 mi­nors) on the shore car­ry­ing quan­ti­ties of lug­gage. Up­on see­ing the of­fi­cers, the mem­bers of the group at­tempt­ed to hide in a near­by aban­doned struc­ture but were held and placed in­to quar­an­tine. Im­mi­gra­tion of­fi­cials were sub­se­quent­ly con­tact­ed.

Of­fi­cers al­so held a man of Rest House Vil­lage, Ma­yaro, who was ob­served with two cages in his pos­ses­sion. The cages con­tained a num­ber of birds, name­ly bullfinch­es and blue and gold macaws. The an­i­mals were seized and a par­ty of Game War­dens took them in­to cus­tody.

The sus­pect was al­so placed in­to quar­an­tine. In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing. The ex­er­cise al­so in­clud­ed of­fi­cers of the Ma­yaro Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment, Task Force, and the Emer­gency Re­sponse Pa­trol Unit.


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