Two peo­ple have been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the kid­nap­ping of eight-month-old Sophia Ri­vas.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has con­firmed the ar­rests, fol­low­ing the ba­by’s res­cue from the hands of her kid­nap­pers last night.

DCP (Ag) In­ves­ti­ga­tions and In­tel­li­gence, Mc Don­ald Ja­cob, said the suc­cess of the ex­er­cise was as a re­sult of co­op­er­a­tion among the var­i­ous in­ter­nal and ex­ter­nal law en­force­ment agen­cies.

He al­so stat­ed that the break­through was pos­si­ble due to the ef­forts be­ing made by the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, Gary Grif­fith, to syn­er­gize and stream­line the work of all lo­cal law en­force­ment agen­cies.

Ac­cord­ing to of­fi­cial po­lice re­ports, the child’s moth­er, a Venezue­lan na­tion­al, re­port­ed to po­lice that around 9:10am, on Tues­day 15th Sep­tem­ber 2020, she was at her Long­denville Old Road, Long­denville, Ch­agua­nas home with her daugh­ter, when the child was tak­en by a woman with­out her per­mis­sion.

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

Act­ing on in­tel­li­gence, an ex­er­cise, spear­head­ed by Snr. Supt. (Ag.) Cur­tis Si­mon was con­duct­ed around 10:50pm, on Tues­day 15th Sep­tem­ber, 2020 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 In­ves­ti­ga­tions Unit, the Cy­ber­crime Unit, and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Prison Ser­vice.

Dur­ing the ex­er­cise, the of­fi­cers pro­ceed­ed to Mc In­roy Street, Curepe, where they found and clin­i­cal­ly ex­tract­ed the ba­by in a safe man­ner.

A 19-year-old woman of Cal­i­for­nia, Cen­tral Trinidad, and an­oth­er sus­pect, who were found in the com­pa­ny with the vic­tim at the time, were ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the in­ci­dent.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.