A 43-year-old man kidnapped from Santa Cruz was found injured during a police operation in Laventille, with investigations ongoing.
A 43-year-old San-ta Cruz man who was kid-napped from his home on Thurs-day was res-cued by po-lice dur-ing an op-er-a-tion in Laven-tille on Fri-day.. Po-lice said the man was ab-duct-ed around 5 a.m.. on May 8 af-ter sev-er-al men en-tered a house in San-ta Cruz where he and his girl-friend were present.. Ac-cord-ing to po-lice, the in-trud-ers took the cou-ple’s cel-lu-lar phones be-fore leav-ing with the man in a ve-hi-cle.. Of-fi-cers of the San-ta Cruz
Crim-i-nal In-ves-ti-ga-tion De-part-ment re-spond-ed to a re-port of kid-nap-ping for ran-som at about 6 a.m.. Po-lice said about one hour af-ter the ab-duc-tion, the vic-tim’s sis-ter re-ceived a tele-phone call from one of the vic-tim’s cel-lu-lar phones de-mand-ing mon-ey for his re-lease.. In-ves-ti-ga-tors from the An-ti-Kid-nap-ping Unit lat-er car-ried out en-quiries in La Canoa, San-ta Cruz, and dis-tricts in San Juan.. Res-i-dents were in-ter-viewed and of-fi-cers al-so searched for CCTV footage con-nect-ed to the in-ci-dent..
Of-fi-cers of the North East-ern Di-vi-sion Crime Scene In-ves-ti-ga-tions Unit processed the scene.. Po-lice said an in-tel-li-gence-led op-er-a-tion was lat-er launched un-der the com-mand of DCP In-tel-li-gence and In-ves-ti-ga-tions Natasha George, with co-or-di-na-tion by ACP Smith.. The ex-er-cise was led by Snr Supt Pa-ri-man and in-volved of-fi-cers of the An-ti-Kid-nap-ping Unit, Crim-i-nal In-ves-ti-ga-tions De-part-ment, Spe-cial Op-er-a-tions Unit and the In-ter-Agency Task Force.. Dur-ing the op-er-a-tion, of-fi-cers car-ried out en-quiries at sev-er-al lo-ca-tions, in-clud-ing Kel-ly Vil-lage,
Readymix Road and Laven-tille.. Po-lice said of-fi-cers lat-er went to a two-storey struc-ture with an an-nex be-hind a sec-ondary school in Laven-tille.. While search-ing the an-nex, of-fi-cers found a shirt-less man wear-ing blue jeans who had in-juries about his body.. Po-lice said the man iden-ti-fied him-self as the kid-nap-ping vic-tim.. The vic-tim was tak-en to a med-ical fa-cil-i-ty for treat-ment.. Po-lice said in-ves-ti-ga-tions are con-tin-u-ing as of-fi-cers work to iden-ti-fy and ar-rest the peo-ple in-volved
in the kid-nap-ping.. The Trinidad and To-ba-go Po-lice Ser-vice said the res-cue re-sult-ed from co-or-di-na-tion among sev-er-al polic-ing units in-volved in the in-ves-ti-ga-tion.