JENSEN LA VENDE

Se­nior Re­porter

jensen.lavende@guardian.co.tt

Po­lice in­ves­ti­gate pen­sion­er’s body found near Diego Mar­tin build­ing

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the dis­cov­ery of a de­com­pos­ing body on Sun­day morn­ing near the Diego Mar­tin Bor­ough Ad­min­is­tra­tion Build­ing at Ken Val­ley Dri­ve, West Vale, Diego Mar­tin.

Po­lice said that around 10 am, a se­cu­ri­ty guard re­port­ed be­ing in­formed by a pass­er-by of a foul stench com­ing from the back of the build­ing. When she checked, she dis­cov­ered the body of Loren­zo Hus­bands, 73, face down in­side a waste­water ex­it drain lead­ing to a ravine out­side the com­pound.

Hus­bands’ body was re­moved and tak­en to the Foren­sic Sci­ences Cen­tre for an au­top­sy on Tues­day.

‘I don’t want to shoot you’ – Ban­dit robs bar work­er of $40,000

A bar work­er was robbed of $40,000 by a man who told her he did not want to shoot her.

Po­lice said the 35-year-old work­er was at Trip­ple R Bar on East­ern Main Road, D’Abadie, around 11.20 am when a fair-skinned, stocky man with plaits and a hat hand­ed her a hun­dred-dol­lar bill and asked for a beer.

As she was giv­ing him his change, the em­ploy­ee no­ticed the man had a gun and he said, “Don’t look at my face, I don’t want to shoot you, just give me every­thing.”

Fear­ing for her life, she hand­ed over $40,000. The man then fled the scene.

Ari­ma man held af­ter rob­bing fam­i­ly in home in­va­sion

An Ari­ma man was ar­rest­ed short­ly af­ter he and three ac­com­plices stormed a San­gre Grande home, rob­bing a fam­i­ly that in­clud­ed a 12-year-old and a pen­sion­er.

Po­lice said the man, from Ari­ma, was ap­pre­hend­ed by of­fi­cers from the Man­zanil­la Po­lice Post. The rob­bery took place on Sun­day af­ter­noon around 3 pm at a house along Flem­ming Road, Fish­ing Pond.

Two of the in­trud­ers were armed with cut­lass­es, one with a ba­ton, and one with a ham­mer. They forced their way in­to the house, tied up four vic­tims, and pro­ceed­ed to steal their pos­ses­sions.

The thieves robbed a 66-year-old man of $600, the keys to his pick­up, his dri­ver’s per­mit, and his na­tion­al ID card. They took $1,000 cash, a bank card, a nail clip­per, a T-lin­er, a G-Shock watch, a Sam­sung Note 20, and keys to his Nis­san Almera from a 34-year-old man. A 23-year-old man lost his Poco X5 cell phone val­ued at $1,500, an Xbox X-Se­ries con­sole worth $3,000, a cam­era, two charg­ers, and a chain­saw al­so val­ued at $3,000. The men stole a gold ring and $1,900 from a 50-year-old woman, as well as a Blu cell phone from a 12-year-old. A nine-year-old boy present in the house was not robbed.

Af­ter leav­ing with the stolen items and two ve­hi­cles, the vic­tims freed them­selves and called the po­lice.

Con­sta­bles Raghoo­bar, Kallicha­ran, and Nan­hoo, with as­sis­tance from of­fi­cers of the East­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force, in­ter­cept­ed the stolen pick­up dri­ven by the sus­pect at Caigual Road, Man­zanil­la. The Nis­san Almera was re­cov­ered at Lo­gan Road, North Man­zanil­la, with the stolen items in­side.