A T&T na­tion­al want­ed in the Unit­ed States for at­tempt­ed mur­der has been ex­tra­dit­ed to face charges.

Vin­cent Roberts was hand­ed over to US au­thor­i­ties on Wednes­day and trans­port­ed to New York, where he faces mul­ti­ple charges, in­clud­ing at­tempt­ed mur­der and crim­i­nal pos­ses­sion of a weapon. If con­vict­ed, he could face up to 25 years in prison.

Roberts, a per­ma­nent US res­i­dent, was ini­tial­ly charged in New York in Sep­tem­ber 2021. He fled to T&T in De­cem­ber 2022 while on bond await­ing tri­al. In Jan­u­ary 2023, a war­rant for his ar­rest was is­sued in New York for at­tempt­ed mur­der, at­tempt­ed as­sault, and two counts of crim­i­nal pos­ses­sion of a weapon. The US gov­ern­ment re­quest­ed his ex­tra­di­tion in Jan­u­ary 2024, and he was ar­rest­ed in Laven­tille on April 17, 2024.

On Jan­u­ary 22, At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Regi­nald Ar­mour signed a war­rant, al­low­ing US of­fi­cials to take cus­tody of Roberts.

The ex­tra­di­tion was the re­sult of col­lab­o­ra­tion be­tween sev­er­al agen­cies, in­clud­ing the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice, the Cen­tral Au­thor­i­ty of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al’s Of­fice, T&T Cus­toms and Im­mi­gra­tion, the Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty, US Cus­toms and Bor­der Pro­tec­tion, the US Drug En­force­ment Ad­min­is­tra­tion, the US De­part­ment of Jus­tice Of­fice of In­ter­na­tion­al Af­fairs, the New York City Po­lice De­part­ment, and the Kings Coun­ty Dis­trict At­tor­ney’s Of­fice.

—RHON­DOR DOWLAT