A sus­pect­ed thief was caught by alert of­fi­cers of the South­ern Di­vi­sion on Sat­ur­day night, as he at­tempt­ed to make his get­away with a quan­ti­ty of items al­leged­ly stolen from a Princes Town busi­ness place.

The Po­lice Ser­vice con­firmed the ar­rest in an of­fi­cial state­ment is­sued to­day.

The TTPS re­ports that of­fi­cers of the Princes Town Po­lice Sta­tion were on mo­bile pa­trol along the Na­pari­ma Ma­yaro Road, in the St. Julien Vil­lage dis­trict, around 11:30 pm, on Sat­ur­day 5 No­vem­ber 2022, when they ob­served two men stand­ing on the road­way.

When the of­fi­cers ap­proached the sus­pects, one of them dropped a knap­sack he had in his pos­ses­sion and both in­di­vid­u­als at­tempt­ed to flee in­to some near­by bush­es.

One sus­pect was held a short dis­tance away while the oth­er es­caped. A search of the knap­sack re­vealed it con­tained a quan­ti­ty of gro­cery items. A check of the im­me­di­ate sur­round­ings re­sult­ed in of­fi­cers al­so find­ing a flat screen tele­vi­sion and a quan­ti­ty of elec­tron­ic items.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions re­vealed that the items had been stolen from a near­by busi­ness place.

The sus­pect was ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the in­ci­dent.

Mean­while, in the North-East­ern Di­vi­sion, Task Force of­fi­cers con­duct­ed an ex­er­cise in the San Juan dis­trict be­tween 5 am and 8 am, on Sat­ur­day.

Dur­ing the ex­er­cise, of­fi­cers stopped and searched a 28-year-old man of Cunu­pia, which re­sult­ed in one re­volver and one round of am­mu­ni­tion be­ing found in his pos­ses­sion.

The sus­pect was ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the find.