RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

rad­hi­ca­s­ookraj@guardian.co.tt

Moth­er of three Na­tal­ie Pol­lon­ais has dis­ap­peared with­out a trace and her fam­i­ly is now wor­ried that she may have been kid­napped.

Up to last night, po­lice were search­ing sev­er­al parts of the coun­try in a bid to find her. Ini­tial re­ports in­di­cate that Pol­lon­ais, 49, of Palmiste, San Fer­nan­do, went miss­ing af­ter leav­ing the Cen­tral Ath­let­ics gym at the C3 mall in Corinth, South Trinidad yes­ter­day morn­ing. Her white BMW 5308 hy­brid ve­hi­cle, one of two in T&T, was al­so re­port­ed miss­ing by her hus­band Ja­son Pol­lon­ais.

Po­lice said Na­tal­ie’s phone was con­nect­ed to her car. Traces on the phone showed it was in St Au­gus­tine be­fore the sig­nal was lost.

There were no calls for ran­som to the fam­i­ly up to last night but po­lice said they were not rul­ing out the pos­si­bil­i­ty that Pol­lon­ais could have been ab­duct­ed.

In an in­ter­view yes­ter­day, her daugh­ter Ash­ley broke down in tears as she spoke of her moth­er’s mys­te­ri­ous dis­ap­pear­ance.

Ash­ley said Na­tal­ie left home to go to the gym yes­ter­day morn­ing, fol­low­ing which she was ex­pect­ed to vis­it a friend in Palmiste.

“She called her friend from the car af­ter she left the gym and said she would be by her in 20 min­utes. Peo­ple saw her at the gym. Her phone con­nects to the car so we are sure she made it to the car. When she did not ar­rive at the friend’s home we be­gan call­ing her but she was not an­swer­ing any­body’s calls,” Ash­ley said.

She ex­plained that Na­tal­ie want­ed to get some er­rands done so she told her house­keep­er that she was com­ing home ear­ly yes­ter­day.

“When she did not show up or an­swer calls by 3 pm, we all got very wor­ried and my dad said some­thing was def­i­nite­ly wrong,” Ash­ley said, sob­bing.

Say­ing her moth­er was al­ways on the phone, Ash­ley said, “She would call us all through the day. She was al­ways in touch. It is not like her to not call or an­swer. We are very wor­ried about her.”

Con­tact­ed yes­ter­day, broth­er-in-law Scott Pol­lon­ais said Na­tal­ie was not em­ployed. Say­ing the fam­i­ly was baf­fled by the dis­ap­pear­ance, Scott said, “All we want is for her to come back home.”

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith de­clined to com­ment on the dis­ap­pear­ance yes­ter­day.

So­cial me­dia cir­cu­lat­ed Pol­lon­ais’ pho­to wide­ly yes­ter­day. On Face­book, many ex­pressed the hope that she would be found safe and sound. Any­one with in­for­ma­tion on her where­abouts can con­tact Crime Stop­pers at 800-TIPS.