The Po­lice Ser­vice has con­firmed that a fugi­tive want­ed by Unit­ed States au­thor­i­ties for se­ri­ous of­fens­es—in­clud­ing at­tempt­ed mur­der—was cap­tured yes­ter­day, dur­ing a spe­cial po­lice op­er­a­tion.

A state­ment from the Po­lice Ser­vice re­ports the sus­pect was ar­rest­ed pur­suant to out­stand­ing war­rants for the of­fences of At­tempt­ed Mur­der in the Sec­ond De­gree, At­tempt­ed As­sault in the First De­gree and Pos­ses­sion of a Weapon in the Sec­ond De­gree, com­mit­ted with­in the ju­ris­dic­tion of the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca.

The TTPS says pur­suit of the sus­pect be­gan af­ter re­ceipt of in­tel­li­gence from an in­ter­na­tion­al source in March 2024.

“The in­tel­li­gence sug­gest­ed that the sus­pect was in Trinidad, af­ter he fled the Unit­ed States to evade law en­force­ment in­ves­ti­ga­tions,” the re­lease said.

“The sus­pect, who al­leged­ly re­turned to Trinidad in De­cem­ber 2022, had re­port­ed­ly tak­en mea­sures to con­ceal his where­abouts,” the TTPS notes, “in­clud­ing re­lo­cat­ing to an undis­closed ad­dress with­in the Laven­tille area.”

The Po­lice Ser­vice had the sus­pect un­der sur­veil­lance for some time, and on Wednes­day 17 April 2024, the want­ed man was seen walk­ing along Des­pers Cres­cent.

“Sub­se­quent­ly, an in­tel­li­gence unit of the TTPS, along with of­fi­cers of the Guard and Emer­gency Branch (GEB), swift­ly co­or­di­nat­ed an op­er­a­tion lead­ing to his ap­pre­hen­sion. The of­fi­cers ex­e­cut­ed the ex­tra­di­tion war­rant and the sus­pect was tak­en in­to cus­tody and con­veyed to the Wood­brook Po­lice Sta­tion, where he re­mains de­tained pend­ing fur­ther le­gal pro­ceed­ings,” the TTPS stat­ed.

The Po­lice Ser­vice notes that it con­tin­ues to col­lab­o­rate with in­ter­na­tion­al law en­force­ment agen­cies, “to en­sure that fugi­tives are brought to jus­tice, re­gard­less of their lo­ca­tion.”