Chester Sam­bra­no

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice says in a sig­nif­i­cant op­er­a­tion by the To­ba­go Di­vi­sion­al Task Force, a 30-year-old em­ploy­ee of the Of­fice of the Chief Sec­re­tary was de­tained yes­ter­day in con­nec­tion with il­le­gal traf­fick­ing ac­tiv­i­ties. 

In a state­ment the TTPS said on Au­gust 10, 2024, at ap­prox­i­mate­ly 6:13 pm, of­fi­cers on mo­bile pa­trol along Joe­field Trace, Lam­beau, spot­ted a heav­i­ly tint­ed Mit­subishi Lancer dri­ving sus­pi­cious­ly.

Of­fi­cers in­ter­cept­ed and stopped the ve­hi­cle, dis­cov­er­ing that it was oc­cu­pied sole­ly by a man from Lam­beau Vil­lage.

Up­on search­ing the ve­hi­cle, of­fi­cers re­port­ed­ly un­cov­ered what they called a trou­bling ar­ray of il­le­gal items, in­clud­ing a Glock pis­tol,15 rounds of 9mm am­mu­ni­tion, 613 grams of cannabis, 97 ec­sta­sy pills, $410 TTD, $14 USD, $100 EC, Two short­wave ra­dios, a vac­u­um seal­er, One ski mask, sev­er­al trans­par­ent pack­ets, one dig­i­tal scale and 27 Dig­i­cel SIM cards.

The in­di­vid­ual, who lacked a dri­ver's per­mit and was not the ve­hi­cle’s reg­is­tered own­er, was ar­rest­ed on the spot.

He, along with the ve­hi­cle and the seized items, was trans­port­ed to the Scar­bor­ough Po­lice Sta­tion for fur­ther pro­cess­ing. 

The in­ves­ti­ga­tion is on­go­ing as au­thor­i­ties work to un­cov­er the full ex­tent of the traf­fick­ing op­er­a­tion and its con­nec­tions.