One woman and two men have been charged with the kid­nap­ping of nine-month-old Sophia Ri­vas which oc­curred on Sep­tem­ber 15, 2020.

An­jali De Gannes, 19, of Long­denville Old Road, Ch­agua­nas, Ju­dah Taitt, 58 and Jdan Taitt, 24, both of McIn­roy Street, Curepe, were joint­ly charged Mon­day with kid­nap­ping for ran­som based on ad­vice re­ceived from Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) Roger Gas­pard SC.

JDan Taitt was al­so charged with ne­go­ti­at­ing a ran­som.

Two oth­er sus­pects were re­leased fol­low­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

On the morn­ing of the in­ci­dent, a re­port was re­ceived from the child’s moth­er, a Venezue­lan na­tion­al, that while at her home on Long­denville Old Road, Long­denville, Ch­agua­nas, the child was tak­en by a woman with­out her per­mis­sion.

Some­time lat­er, she re­ceived a tele­phone call from the sus­pect de­mand­ing $20,000 in cash for the safe re­lease of her daugh­ter.

Lat­er that day around 10:50 pm, act­ing on in­tel­li­gence, of­fi­cers pro­ceed­ed to McIn­roy Street, Curepe, where they found and safe­ly res­cued the ba­by.

The ex­er­cise was spear­head­ed by Ag Snr Supt Cur­tis Si­mon and in­clud­ed of­fi­cers of the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment (CID), Op­er­a­tions Unit, Ch­agua­nas CID, Cou­va CID, Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Gang Unit, the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Task Force, the Long­denville Po­lice Post, the An­ti-Kid­nap­ping Unit, the Spe­cial Mem­bers of the pub­lic are asked to like and fol­low the TTPS via our Face­book and Twit­ter pages for the lat­est news and in­for­ma­tion on mat­ters of in­ter­est to the gen­er­al pub­lic. In­ves­ti­ga­tions Unit, the Cy­ber­crime Unit, and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Prison Ser­vice.