Quick work by the TTPS resulted in three suspects being taken into police custody within minutes of allegedly shooting a man in Maloney Gardens, D’Abadie yesterday. According to the TTPS, officers acted quickly following a report of a Wounding with Intent incident and intercepted a vehicle with three occupants. The officers also found two illegal firearms and ammunition after the vehicle was searched.

According to the TTPS:

Around 8:30 am on Wednesday 14th June 2023, a man was standing at the South Western entrance of Building 9 Maloney Gardens, D’Abadie, when two men armed with firearms approached him. The armed assailants then pointed the firearms in the direction of the man and several loud explosions were heard.

The victim ran in a Westerly direction away from the assailants, who proceeded in a Southerly direction onto the Churchill Roosevelt Highway, where they escaped in an awaiting vehicle. The victim was taken to the Arima Health Facility to seek medical attention. Crime Scene Investigators Northern Division processed the scene and recovered 14 spent nine-millimetre shells and one projectile.

Around 8:50 am PC Rigsby and PC Reid were on mobile patrol when they received a transmission from the Northern Division Operation Centre (NDOC), relative to a silver Nissan Tiida that was involved in a report of wounding with intent in the Maloney District. The officers then observed the said vehicle drove at a high rate of speed, proceeding South along

Golden Grove Road, Piarco, with three occupants. The officers intercepted the vehicle, and when a search was conducted, two firearms and several rounds of nine-millimetre ammunition were found. With the assistance of Ag/Cpl Cassar and a party of officers of the Northern Division ERP, the occupants of the vehicle were arrested and conveyed to the Maloney Police Station, along with the seized items.

Meanwhile, one man was arrested following a school stakeout exercise conducted in the Malabar district of the Northern Division –North yesterday, following reports of a series of break-ins and larcenies at a primary school in the area.

Around 2:30 am, whilst in an unmarked vehicle along La Chance Trace Extension, the officers observed a man riding a bicycle in a westerly direction along the said roadway with a blue knapsack on his back. The said man then rode past the unmarked vehicle about four times, and
kept looking in the direction of the officers.

This aroused the officers’ suspicion and based on information and description previously received, they observed the said man to be fitting same. The officers announced themselves and then gave chase, as the suspect attempted to elude them. A few minutes later, the said man was stopped along Subero Street, Malabar, Arima, where he was questioned by the officers. When they searched the man nothing illegal was found, however, whilst searching through his knapsack, officers found two screwdrivers.

The officers then arrested the suspect, cautioned him, and conveyed him to the Malabar Police Post to be charged with Loitering and also for Being in Possession of House Breaking Implements.