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Crime ,Murders end of September '19 ....T&T ...406
sgtdjones
2019-09-02 15:02:44
Murders to date 374 and counting in 2019
Firearms bail amendment bill passed in T&T !!
Mom chopped to death: Child witnessed killing
WHILE making preparations to send her child to school on the first day of the new school term on Monday morning, a Siparia woman was chopped to death in her home.
The woman, Selene Sankar was an employee of Republic Bank in Siparia.
She died at the house at La Brea Brea Trace. It happened at around 6 a.m.
Police said the suspect, a close male relative, ran into the bushes with a length of rope.
"That is it for me" he reported said, before disappearing.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-02 15:19:07
70 cops escape death
Griffith says officers' lives on the line
Police Commissioner Gary Griffith continued his call for more public support for the police yesterday, as he delivered his address for the Prime Minister's Independence Day toast to the nation at the Police Administration Building, Sackville Street, Port of Spain yesterday.
Griffith said over the past year, there were over 40 incidents where police officers were shot at and called for greater understanding and compassion for the police as they protect and serve.
"Over 70 police officers could have been killed in the line of duty, had it not been for the grace of God and their training. Thankfully not one was killed over the past year and it says a lot, but it wouldn't make headline news. I ask all let's start adding some care, compassion and support to the men and women who put their lives on the line on a daily basis for this country."
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Griffith also announced that there was a five to 10 per cent decrease in every major crime, including murder, for the year thus far when compared to the same period last year.
The murder rate is above last years total??????
sgtdjones
2019-09-03 00:55:56
Mom robbed of wedding $$ by ice pick bandit
A 63-year-old woman was robbed of $6500 by a man who threatened her life with an ice pick on Monday.
Relatives of the woman believe the criminal was eyeing potential victims at the bank.
The victim went to the Valpark Shopping Plaza branch of Republic Bank and withdrew the money for her son's upcoming wedding.
She was dropped by a relative close to her Spring Village, Valsayn home.
As the victim proceeded to walk to her home at around 1 p.m. a man in a black car approached her.
She told the Express the man exited the car, walked up to her with an ice pick with a yellow handle in hand and told her "hand over the bag or else I'll stab you".
The woman gave the man the bag.
He then returned to his car, reversed onto the main street and drove off.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-03 12:58:10
Body found in Tacarigua
A 24-year-old man was found dead in drain in Tacarigua on Sunday. He has been identified as Dayne Medina.
Arouca police responded to a report of a foul smell coming from a drain near Singh Street, Tacarigua. They found Medina’s decomposing body near the Seventh Day Adventist Church.
Investigators found out that at about 2 am on Saturday, a resident was returning home from a wake when he heard gunshots, but thought they were firecrackers, so he did not make a report. At about 5 pm on Sunday another resident found the body and made a report.
Crime scene investigators found 12 spent shells near the body. Up to press time no motive had been established.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-03 21:47:28
Dad walks in on his child being raped
A Mayaro father caught a La Romaine man raping his 15 year old daughter in his home last week, police said.
The 50 year old father fought with the man in his daughter’s bedroom.
He apprehended the man, and handed him over to police officers on Wednesday night.
Police officers took the man to the Mayaro Police station and officers of the Eastern Division Child Protection Unit were contacted.
Inquiries revealed that the man had lured his daughter into a relationship and had been conversing on What’s App with the teenager since last year.
The man allegedly met with the teenager on previous occasions when he allegedly sexually assaulted the child.
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Teen went to buy a cell phone: Raped by 'seller'
AN 18 year old Siparia woman reported to police on Monday that she was sexually assaulted by a man whom she knew since her childhood.
The man later threatened her by showing her the firearm he was carrying, the victim reported.
The woman went to the Siparia police station and told officers that on Sunday she went to the apartment where the man lived to purchase a cell phone.
She told officers that she knew the man for nine years.
The woman said that the man took off the lights and then attacked her.
She said she resisted but he overpowered her and sexually assaulted her.
The woman said she left the apartment.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-04 15:09:40
Gym instructor charged with raping, buggering teenager
A GYM instructor appeared in court charged with sexual offences against a teenager.
Kriston Seepersad was placed on $250,000 bail.
Seepersad, 25, of Debe, faced charges of rape, buggery, grievous sexual assault and indecent assault against an 18-year-old. The offences allegedly occurred in Penal on February 24.
Charges were laid by PC Mohammed of the Penal CID.
Seepersad appeared before the Siparia court on Monday, represented by attorney Wayne Rajbansie.
Police prosecutor Starr Jacob made no objection to bail as Seepersad did not have a criminal record, but asked that conditions be imposed.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-05 13:48:18
3 Venezuelans held in ganja business
POLICE arrested three Venezuelans and two locals on Tuesday for the possession of approximately 14 kilos of marijuana worth an estimated $140,000.
Police said that around noon on Tuesday they received information which led them to stop a car with three men along the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway near Mausica Road.
In the car were two Venezuelan men and one local.
When officers searched the car they found nine kilos of marijuana following which the three men were detained.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-05 13:49:48
Schoolgirl gets on the bus, and vanishes
Police need help to find 16-year-old Selena Seebaran.
Selena, of St. Croix Road, Princes Town, was last seen by a relative entering a school bus on her way to Tableland High School, around 6:15am, on Tuesday.
She was reported missing to the Tableland Police Station on the same date.
The Anti Kidnapping Unit is involved in the search.
Selena is of East Indian descent, 5 feet 6 inches tall and slim built with a brown complexion and long black hair. She was last
seen wearing her school uniform; a white shirt, blue skirt, blue and white striped tie, as well as a pair of black shoes and socks. Selena also wears glasses and has a white polka dot book-bag in her possession.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-05 13:51:26
Valencia man held for shopkeeper’s murder
A Valencia man has been arrested in relation to the April murder of La Horquetta shopkeeper Christopher Kanhai.
Police said the 25-year-old man was arrested by members of the Northern Division Task Force while in hiding at a house in Plantation Road, Cumuto, on Tuesday morning.
Investigators said they had CCTV footage showing the murder. Kanhai, 38, was at his shop on Chameleon Boulevard, La Horquetta at around 1.30 pm on April 10 when a man approached pretending to be a customer, and shot him several times before running away.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-05 13:52:57
SCHOOL OF FEAR
Gunmen terrorise staff, students at St Joseph's Secondary
POLICE are investigating reports of gunmen terrorising students and staff at the St Joseph Secondary School forcing early dismissal of classes yesterday.
First vice president of the TT Unified Teachers Association (TTUTA ) Kyrla Robertson confirmed the incident and said she would be speaking to the senior superintendent today to work out some security measures as both staff and students were scared.
Robertson said there had been no end of problems in that community, but yesterday’s incident brought a new level of fear and intimidation to the occupants of the school.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-05 13:59:46
Orphaned boy promises murdered mom: ‘I’ll make you proud”
The eight-year-old boy who became an orphan on Monday when his father killed his mother has vowed to make her proud.
“Don’t worry, I will make you proud, Mummy.” the tearful child said while being comforted by relatives yesterday.
Relatives did not tell the boy his father was found dead and he believes he is still on the run.
His father, Harricharan Ramsundar, 42, was found dead near the family home at Phulo Drive, La Brea Trace, Siparia, hours after he killed his wife, Neisha Cyleane Sankar, 29.
A close relative, Curtis Larode, told Newsday, “He knows that his mother was killed by his father, but he does not know that his father was found dead. And at this time we are not going to tell him right now. This child is still traumatised, he is going through so much. He loved his parents and now he keeps saying all he wants to do is make his mother proud.”
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sgtdjones
2019-09-05 14:01:48
Mentally ill man shot dead
A 34-YEAR-OLD La Puerta man was shot dead by police during a confrontation on Monday.
Police said that at 10 am, members of the Western Division’s Emergency Response Patrol were responding to reports that a man armed with a cutlass was threatening neighbours.
Officers said when they arrived, they were attacked by Michael Stuart and shot him in self-defence.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-07 14:49:05
Penal gardener shot dead
Around 10 am today, a gunman walked up to a van in Penal and started shooting.
He killed a man, Ricky Mohammed, and wounded his wife, who is now being treated at hospital.
Mohammed, a gardener from Rock Road, Penal, was driving along Jagroop Trace when he saw tyres lying in the road. He stopped to investigate and the gunman approached and fired.
Passers-by called Penal police. They are investigating
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sgtdjones
2019-09-07 14:50:08
Gunmen arrested in La Brea
Two gun-toting bandits who robbed a bar owner of cash and bottles of rum at Sobo Village in La Brea have been arrested.
In a patrol led by Sgt Ryan Ramsingh and Cpl Keive Thompson, South Western Division police arrested the duo on Thursday at about 5 pm in the district.
A police report said two gunmen walked in Champion's Bar on Wednesday at about 5.30 pm and announced a hold-up. They robbed the owner of $1,000, took a few bottles of rum and ran out. They got into a silver Nissan Tiida and sped off.
A report was made and police seached the area and interviewed several people.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-07 14:51:07
Victims fight back: Bandits stabbed, shot
Two bandits who tried to rob a Kelly Village family got more than they bargained for when their would-be victims turned on them, stabbing one of the bandits and shooting him before he escaped.
Police said the family were having a barbecue in their front yard at around midnight when two gunmen came in, forced them inside the house and tried to rob them.
The victims fought back, stabbing one of the men several times, and wrestled the gun away from one of the bandits, then shot him once in the stomach.
Police came to the scene and said the family would not be arrested, as they acted in self-defence.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-07 14:53:49
Police shoot man who storms Barataria South Secondary
Students, teachers and security officers were on Friday left highly traumatised as a mentally unstable man stormed into the compound of the Barataria South Secondary School and went on a rampage.
The incident occurred shortly before 8 am.
The man attacked the security officers who fought hard to restrain him. After they managed to tie him down he broke free and began pelting chairs and stones at teachers and the officers.
Police officers who were on the compound, we're not armed with tasers so instead one of them shot him in the leg in a bid to "stop him."
The mentally unstable man was then taken to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex in Mt Hope and is currently warded under police guard.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-08 02:14:28
Sandman’s cousin shot dead
JUST over a month after notorious gangster Vaughan “Sandman” Mieres was killed, his cousin was ambushed and shot dead yesterday afternoon.
Police told the Sunday Express that shortly before 2.30 p.m., Dillon “Mission” Mieres of Maracas, St Joseph, and his wife, Mary Reyes, were travelling in a white Toyota Corolla heading north along Maracas Royal Road. As they drove near the WASA water station at El Luengo Village, a white Nissan AD Wagon slammed into their car.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-08 02:16:46
After death threats over land: Farmer murdered, wife critical
MONTHS of death threats over the land they had planted were carried out on a Penal couple on Friday.
Ricky Mohammed, 53, was shot dead yesterday while his wife, Gertrude Mohammed, 55, is fighting for her life at hospital.
Ricky was shot to the head while Gertrude was hit in the neck and chest.
She underwent emergency surgery at the San Fernando General Hospital. The attack occurred as the couple was driving out of the garden at Jagroop Trace, Penal Rock Road.
They were headed back to their home less than a mile away with the corn they harvested, intending to share with their relatives, neighbours and friends.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-08 16:02:44
Missing for the past week
Police need help in locating 32-year-old Ryan Thomas.
Ryan, was last seen at his River Estate, Diego Martin, home last Saturday morning.
He was reported missing to the West End Police Station, around 9p.m, Friday by his sister.
Ryan is of African descent, 6 feet 4 inches tall and slim built with a brown complexion and short black hair. He was last seen wearing a grey t-shirt, a pair of ¾ khaki pants and a pair of black shoes.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-08 16:16:01
T&T's 'most wanted' killed near police station
One of the country’s most “Wanted” and “Dangerous” man was gunned down several feet away from the Freeport Police Station seconds after he walked out from the charge room on Saturday night.
It is suspected that the assailants followed Haradath “H” Solomon, 42, of Mission Road, Freeport, to the station, where he had gone to get his book signed by officers as proof that he was still in the country on orders handed down by a magistrate in a court matter he was involved in.
The gunmen waited outside the station along the Mission Road until he walked out and then they drove past him with and the occupants opened fire on their target.
Solomon was hit just outside the Lotto and Play Whe booth just west of the station, less than 100 feet away.
Crime Scene Investigators who processed the scene on Saturday night recovered over 16 spent shells on the scene. The incident occurred at about 7 pm.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-10 14:20:24
Tobago gyro man shot
A Crown Point, Tobago, businessman is fighting for his life at the Scarborough General Hospital after being shot in the head early on Monday.
Reports are that around 4 am, Elias Dabdouran, 30, of Canaan, and an associate were off-loading goods from a white van at the front of their newly-opened businessplace along Milford Road, Crown Point, when two men apporoached them.
Police said one of the men pointed a gun at Dabdouran and opened fire. He was said to have been shot several times in the head.
Dabdouran's associate then chased the men, who ran away from the scene.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-10 14:26:00
Missing teen found in Arima, man, 48, held
A 16-year-old Princes Town girl who was reported missing last Tuesday was rescued today from a house in Arima where she was being kept against her will, police said.
Investigators said they received CCTV footage of the girl getting into a Nissan Tiida car and traced the licence plate to a man in Belmont. They found the man, who told them he had been hired to pick up the girl and take her to the house in Arima where she was found.
Police then went to another house in the Northern Division where they arrested a 48-year-old man who the driver claimed hired him to take the girl to the house.
The girl was found unharmed.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-10 14:34:19
Welder assessing a job gunned down
Naresh "Venesh" Basant was gunned down in Korea Village in Carapichaima on Monday night while on a site assessing a prospective job.
Basant, of Charlieville, Chaguanas, was fatally shot while at Jagbir Street around 7.45 pm.
Police reported that residents heard several gunshots before Basant's body was found lying on the roadway next to his Honda Civic motorcar.
Details are still sketchy but Guardian Media understands that Basant, who is a professional and certified welder, was called out to the area to check out a prospective welding job.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-10 20:19:57
Rachael's husband, brother, brother-in-law, now relative killed
The killings that started with the slaying of multi-millionaire auto and real estate dealer Sheron Sukhdeo, continue.
On Monday night Naresh Basant, a relative of Sheron’s wife Rachael Sukhdeo, was gunned down.
Basant, 39, of Caroni Savannah Road, Charlieville, was killed at Korea Village, Carapichaima around 6.45 p.m.
Police said that residents claimed they saw nothing of Bassant’s killing.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-10 20:24:50
Barrackpore mechanic shot 6 times
BARRACKPORE police are investigating the shooting yesterday of a 32-year-old mechanic at Rochard Douglas Road shortly before noon.
Faraz Ali, 32, was shot six times while he was repairing a vehicle in his garage. The incident happened at about 11.30 am, when another employee and family members ran for cover when a silver-coloured Nissan Versa reversed into the garage.
According to a police report, a lone gunman got out of the Versa and shot at Ali, who was partly hidden under the engine of a vehicle which was elevated in the front by a jack. During the shooting, one of Ali’s tradesmen took cover under the vehicle.
The shots hit Ali in the shoulder and arm. The gunman got into the car and sped off.
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BeatDball
2019-09-11 15:41:48
sgtdjones
2019-09-11 23:25:21
sgtdjones
2019-09-11 23:27:06
Man charged with sexually assaulting wife with broom
A MAXI-TAXI driver charged with beating his wife with a broom stick and using it to sexually assault her, appeared before the Princes Town court.
The 37-year-old faced magistrate Indira Misir-Gosine charged with grievous sexual assault and assault by beating.
The man’s father also faced the charge of assaulting the woman by threatening to kill her.
The alleged incidents happened last Saturday during an altercation at the Princes Town home shared by the three.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-11 23:30:09
sgtdjones
2019-09-12 15:40:07
sgtdjones
2019-09-12 15:45:45
sgtdjones
2019-09-12 15:47:07
Praises for retired senior cop as bandit killed during robbery
Praises are pouring in for a retired police superintendent whose bravery may have saved the lives of bar patrons from trigger-happy bandits yesterday.
The shootout at Marshall’s Korner at the corner of Sutton and Cipero Streets, San Fernando, left one bandit dead and the other in hiding, but with a gunshot wound.
Reports stated that around 11.10 am, two Mayaro men were having drinks at the bar when the gun-toting bandits confronted them.
The bandits robbed the 28-year-old man of a gold chain and his 29-year-old friend of his mobile phone before firing a shot at the men.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-12 15:48:55
Two held in roadblock with gun, ammo
Two men were arrested during a roadblock exercise after police officers found a firearm and ammunition in the vehicle they occupied.
According to a police report, at about 10 am on Wednesday PC Andrews and PC Wilson were at the intersection of the Priority Bus Route and Pashley Street conducting a road check exercise when they had cause to stop a white Mitsubishi L 300 driven by a man from Johnny King Road in Aranguez.
A search of the vehicle was conducted and the officers found one Berretta 9 mm pistol with 13 rounds of 9 mm ammunition, six of which had the markings TTR.
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notinsular
2019-09-12 21:45:10
What's the objective here? Is this SgtDjones fellow a budding politician with an agenda? .. Were these posts ubiquitous pre 2015?
.. or maybe he's a Roman Gladiator needing his fix
Trinidad and Tobago’s appetite for gore, bacchanal, scandal and death has left Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi wondering if this country has turned into a Roman Colosseum.
“The Roman Colosseum was the venue that opiated the Roman masses. How? By sacrificing Christians and gladiators to the sword and to the lions,” Al-Rawi explained.
“We seem to relish as a country in gore, bacchanal, scandal and death. Read our newspapers. They don't look like the US newspapers. There have been close to 130 mass murders in the US....a mass murder is where more than four people are killed in one shot...not a reflection of that in their newspapers. Jamaica, which is living under a state of emergency in certain parishes, not a reflection in their papers. Guyana, not a reflection in their papers. Trinidad and Tobago, from page one to the sports page all you could see is gore and gut,”
sgtdjones
2019-09-13 15:17:08
In reply to notinsular
What is the matter can't face facts, being a citizen of
T&T am I not allowed to post such?.
I didn't say it, the attorney General did.
T&T is not paradise , it's a failed state that has been run by corrupt politicians of all elected governments, present and past. I support none.
WE are seeing the seeds that have been sown
Keep voting for them clowns.
sgtdjones
2019-09-13 15:19:02
Venezuelan 'hot dog' customer shot and killed in Point Fortin
The killing happened on the main road, not far from the area police station.
A VENEZUELAN man died after being while eating dinner in Point Fortin on Thursday.
Daniel Vasquez, 30, was shot multiple times and died at hospital.
Vasquez was residing at Wickham Street, Point Fortin.
At around 9 p.m. he went to a food cart at Guapo/ Cap de Ville Main Road and ordered a hot dog.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-13 15:23:09
Man abducted and robbed
ERIN police are continuing investigations after a truck driver was abducted and robbed and later released in a forest.
According to a police report at about 4 am on Tuesday, the man was now leaving his home when three gunmen blocked the entrance of his gate.
The men announced a hold-up and ordered him into his home. All three men were masked. The men robbed him of $12,000 in cash and other valuables. Reports said the men then ordered Mohammed into his Nissan Frontier and they drove to a deserted area in Rancho Quemando Branch Trace, Erin.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-16 15:54:14
Gyro vendor shot dead in Tobago
A 30-year-old gyro vendor who was shot in the head during a robbery in Tobago, has died.
Elias Dabbourah succumbed to his injuries at the Scarborough General Hospital on Saturday.
According to reports, Dabbourah was shot in the head by masked bandits during an attempted robbery around 4 am on Monday, near Republic Bank in Crown Point.
He was rushed to hospital and put on life support.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-16 15:55:46
OLYMPIAN FOUND DEAD
‘We lost a gem’
Trinidad and Tobago Special Olympics athlete Sean Gibson, 34, has been found dead.
Police suspect he was murdered.
His body was discovered at the back of a Woodland vegetable stall along M2 Link Road on Saturday morning by the owner of the stall who came to set up his place for business at 8.10 a.m.
He called the police.
The face of the gold medallist and former football captain appeared to have been bashed in, police said.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-16 15:57:15
Cop beats cop in police station
A police constable remained warded at hospital yesterday after he was “badly beaten” by another officer at the Maloney Police Station yesterday morning. The officer who carried out the attack was said to have been “highly intoxicated” when he arrived at the station to pick up duty some five hours late. Sources said the police corporal was supposed to have reported for duty at 7 p.m. but did not arrive at the station until closer to midnight.
While there, he and the constable became involved in a verbal argument around 2 a.m. resulting in the corporal launching a physical attack on the junior officer beating him about the body including the head and face.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-18 14:31:07
Tobago woman critical after beating
An 18-year-old woman was beaten so severely in Tobago, that she is expected to be flown out to the Port of Spain General Hospital for further treatment.
Police said that Alia Amoroso, who attends the Civilian Conservation Corps, was last seen in a good condition at about 6a.m. on Tuesday, when she was asleep at her home along Barten Drive, Bon Accord.
When relatives returned to the house at about 9am on the same day, the noticed something was amiss when the front door was found ajar.
Upon going inside, Amoroso was found lying on her bed in a pool of blood.
The injured woman had wounds to her face.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-18 14:33:29
Body in river may be homeless woman
THE decomposing body of a woman which was found in the Caroni River on Monday afternoon may be that of a homeless woman who lived on the streets of Port of Spain, police told Newsday yesterday.
Police said the body of the woman who is of African descent, sported dreadlocks and had on a pink floral top was found along the river at around 5.30 pm and police said her physical features matched those of the homeless woman who was well-known in the downtown section of the city.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-18 14:35:26
sgtdjones
2019-09-18 14:37:44
sgtdjones
2019-09-18 14:39:00
sgtdjones
2019-09-19 14:34:10
Former Fyzabad MP's grandson gunned down
DJIMON Sanderson, the grandson of former Government Minister and former Fyzabad Member of Parliament Arthur Sanderson, was gunned down on Wednesday night.
Djimon Sanderson, 21, was killed in a drive-by shooting in Fyzabad.
Around 11 p.m. he exited a vehicle near his home at Gowers Well Road when a white vehicle pulled up alongside.
The occupants of the vehicle opened fire and Djimon Sanderson was shot several times.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-19 14:38:49
Two killed overnight, Maloney, Malabar
In the first incident 33-year-old Atiba Lewis aka "Broadway" was standing in the parking lot near his Building 33, Maloney, home at about 10.45 pm when he was shot several times.
Residents heard the gunfire and on checking called the police, who took Lewis to the Arima Hospital where he died while receiving treatment.
Police said Lewis was known to them for several offences.
Hours later at about 3.15 am police said David Doonie, 30, of Mulligan Drive, La Horquetta, was sleeping at his girlfriend's Cocorite Road, Malabar, home when two masked gunmen, posing as police stormed the bedroom shooting him several times.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-20 01:44:31
sgtdjones
2019-09-20 16:21:31
sgtdjones
2019-09-20 16:22:49
sgtdjones
2019-09-21 13:17:33
Blood dripping through the floorboards: Killed for his salary
Around 8.30 a.m. he was in his upstairs apartment when his sister heard a commotion from her downstairs apartment.
Another sister, Reena Ramcharan, told Express: “My called me and said he was bleeding, but she wasn’t sure where. She found blood leaking on her downstairs. When she came up to check she found him, she saw a lot of blood on the floor”.
Ramcharan said she went to the house and tried life-saving techniques as advised on the phone by the paramedics.
“He was alive when I got here but he wasn’t saying anything. The police and the ambulance took a long while to reach. The ambulance people were on the phone asking how he was doing and telling me what to do. But he died”, she said.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-21 13:19:17
2 robbed in car parks in Trincity, Westmoorings
...Police caution citizens to observe their surroundings
POLICE are warning citizens to take precautions and observe their surroundings following several reports of robberies, with two incidents taking place in car parks on Thursday.
On Thursday evening, a 52-year-old economist, who police said is employed with a United Nations office in Trinidad, was robbed at gunpoint in the car park of Massy Stores in Westmoorings, near The Falls at Westmall. Police said around 6.40 p.m., Michael Hendrickson and his 16-year-old daughter were walking to his Toyota Hilux, having just left Massy Stores supermarket.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-21 13:20:09
WHY are MODERATORS deleting MY Posting.
I stay to 4 paragraphs....has that changed?
sgtdjones
2019-09-21 13:25:48
Decomposing bodies in Maraval, S Cruz and Arouca
Police are trying to identify three decomposing bodies found in Maraval, Santa Cruz and Arouca within a span of 24 hours.
In the first incident, investigators were called to a scene in Anderson Terrace, Camille Drive, Maraval, at around 5.30 pm where they found the body of a man wrapped in a sheet.
Police said they did not have an identification for the body just yet, but appeared to have been beaten over the head.
At around 7 am Arouca Police responded to reports that a decomposing body was found in a garden road, on the northern side of the Priority Bus Route, near Lopinot.
Despite the state of decomposition, investigators noticed what appeared to be chop wounds on the body.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-22 13:34:36
Mini bus driver killed, body dumped
The driver of a PH mini bus was shot in the head and dumped on the roadway leading to Roodal Cemetery on Saturday morning.
The vehicle, a white mini bus, was torched nearby.
The man was identified as 46-year-old Clyde Richard Dennis.
Dennis, of Macaulay in Claxton Bay, plied his vehicle along the Chaguanas/San Fernando route.
Police believe Dennis was plying his trade when he was hijacked some time on Friday night.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-22 13:46:18
Arouca man killed during alleged drug-related robbery
An Arouca man was killed on Friday night during what officials have described as a drug-related robbery gone bad.
Jevon Paponette, 32, of Waterloo Road, Arouca, died between 8.17 pm and 8.30 pm after he was shot by an unknown assailant.
Reports indicate Paponette was walking along Boundary Road, off Waterloo Road, when he was shot several times about the body.
Officers on patrol discovered Paponette lying on his side, with a knapsack strapped to his back. They allegedly discovered a quantity of marijuana in the bag.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-23 15:54:04
Woman gets into PH car, raped in St Clair
A woman has reported that after entering a taxi to take her to work in Maraval on Sunday night, who was attacked and raped in St Clair.
The victim told police that at about 6.50p.m. she was walking along Charlotte Street, Port of Spain.
Upon reaching the vicinity of Eastside Plaza, a white Nissan Tiida pulled alongside her and the driver asked her where she was going.
She told the driver her destination, and he indicated he would drop her there.
Thinking he was PH driver, the woman entered the back seat of the car.
However, while en route to Maraval, the driver diverted to Prada Street, St Clair, where he stopped the vehicle and sexually assaulted the woman.
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notinsular
2019-09-23 16:28:28
Damn ..... Seven murders in 2 days !!
You missed a couple
stdjones was in a deep deep slumber when these happened"
Murder #1:
Pastor Casimir Khan, 52, who was shot dead at 2.45 a.m
Murders #2 and #3:
In Princes Town, south Trinidad, a couple were found stabbed to death at their Inverness home.
Murder #4:
In Tobago, a man was killed in a domestic situation.
Murder #5:
In Wallerfield on Wednesday night, around the same time the couple in Princes Town were murdered, another life was snuffed out.
The Wallerfield father of one was gunned down near his home, and his family believes the bad company he kept was responsible for his demise.
Murder #6:
A 65-year-old Cocorite man who neighbours described as mentally unstable was brutally beaten about the body yesterday, following which his attacker doused him with gasoline and then set his body on fire.
Murder #7:
a man who is yet to be identified, was discovered submerged in the swampy waters of the mangrove, east of the Caroni Bird Sanctuary, along the lay-by of the flyover, heading north.
oh wait ... his people were at the helm then .. so he slept blissfully
sgtdjones
2019-09-23 19:07:05
In reply to notinsular
Nahhhhhhhhhhhh..let me update ya ..ok
“SEVEN MURDERS in 24 hours,” “16 murders in four days” – our headline news for the month of July; the oversaturation of our minds as we face the daily, recurring, gnawing trauma of everyday life in Trinidad.
Growing up in a small island where we are all interconnected and live closely with each other, one would think we would be easy to govern. A country with oil, natural gas, asphalt, ammonia and a supposedly vibrant energy-based economy. How can we possibly go wrong?
A failing nation
notinsular
2019-09-23 22:33:03
so we are only failing now ?
But we were successful when:
Around midnight on May 3, Dana Seetahal, a prominent attorney and former senator in Trinidad and Tobago, had just left a casino in the capital of Port of Spain when her vehicle was stopped by another car blocking the road. A van pulled up alongside and let loose a burst of gunfire, killing her in a well orchestrated hit.
Her murder was one of approximately 170 that have occurred in the Caribbean nation so far this year, putting it on course for one of the highest murder rates in the world. The country saw only 93 murders in 1999. Last year (2013), there were 407.
But gang violence is merely a symptom of a bigger problem. Trinidad has become an important stop for drugs headed to West Africa and the United States. Many observers point to “the big fish” — the nameless political and business elites who are behind drug trafficking and the culture of endemic corruption and murder that come with it.
i love how certain elements in the society only become vocal when a particular party is in power.
so please spare us your concern and objectivity.
sgtdjones
2019-09-23 23:09:34
In reply to notinsular
i love how certain elements in the society only become vocal when a particular party is in power.
so please spare us your concern and objectivity
I previously noted I will not vote or support either party in T&T based on corruption. So I fail to see any validity
in your above comments.
If one were to look why the young males are killing each other, they received nothing from the various Oil Booms.
They saw no trickle down effect from various Governments.
Their neighbors were moving up in society as they have been left behind in places as Laventille , La Brea , La Romaine et al. Even the father of the Country noted he can put a Toad in the election in such areas and they would vote for it.
For over half a century they were neglected of the basics
water, electricity , hospitals , homes et al.
Today , to level the playing field since the money all gone they have become Robin Hoods that deal in murder and drugs. Survival often leads to drastic measures, soon T&T
will be missing a large portion of its youths, they will be cremated or in various cemeteries.
So you see you dont know what my family has accomplished
since the early 1800's in South T&T. We pay taxes as
all good citizens should do to build T&T.
I have always been a vocal critic regardless who is in power.
“To criticize one's country is to do it a service... Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is an act of patriotism--a higher form of patriotism, I believe, than the familiar rituals and national adulation.”
J. William Fulbright (Senator)
TheTrail
2019-09-23 23:42:53
In reply to sgtdjones
WHY are MODERATORS deleting MY Posting.
I stay to 4 paragraphs....has that changed?
Bravos complained about you.
Do you remember what happened to MGL (Marcus Garvey Lives)?
Narper
2019-09-23 23:48:41
In reply to sgtdjones
Even the father of the Country noted he can put a Toad in the election in such areas and they would vote for it.
Not toad....crapaud with de balisier tie
And BTW....you don't have to justify why you highlight the unprecedented levels of crime....which is REAL....NOT FAKE news
Why do some people prefer it to kept quiet to protect who is in power?
sgtdjones
2019-09-24 00:16:35
sgtdjones
2019-09-24 19:51:56
Arima school teacher shot dead, left roadside
A 53-year-old school teacher was found shot to death in Cumuto this morning.
Reports state that around 11 p.m. yesterday, residents reported hearing the sound of gunfire at Bramble Trace.
However, it was not until this morning that the body of Garfield Gaye, of Arima, was discovered in a bushy area off the side of the roadway, police said.
His body was slumped over a discarded tyre.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-24 19:53:31
Another victim of T&T's criminal monsters
The man who was attacked at St Joseph on Friday, warded at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, Mt Hope.
AFTER collecting his and his brother’s salaries on Friday, an electrician was brutally beaten on his face and head by a thief in St Joseph.
The criminal stomped on the face of victim, causing severe injuries to his nose, eyes and jaw.
The thief got the cash and escaped, leaving the victim bleeding and broken at the side of the road.
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Passers-by took the 29 year old man taken to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex where he was warded in serious condition.
sgtdjones
2019-09-24 19:55:06
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Man charged with slashing ex-girlfriend and husband
A LABOURER who allegedly breached a protection order, broke and entered the home of his former girlfriend and slashed the woman and her husband with a knife, appeared before the court on the three charges on Monday.
Vince Walker, 52 of Mon Repos, faced San Fernando senior magistrate Jo-Anne Connor charged with maliciously wounding Brenell Nelson and Kareem Nelson on September 10.
It was also alleged that he broke and entered Brenell Nelson’s dwelling house with intent to wound.
Walker was not called upon to plea to the indictable charges laid by constable Crawford.
To the third charge from Crawford that Walker contravened a protection order and damages items, he said he was not guilty.
Police prosecutor Cleyon Seedan told the court that the alleged victims were out of hospital.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-24 19:56:58
Decomposing body identified as Belmont kidnap victim
THE decomposing body of a man found along Saddle Road, Santa Cruz, has been identified as that of 43-year-old Richard Chin Attong, who was reported as kidnapped from his Belmont home last week.
Police said one of Attong's relatives positively identified him yesterday and an autopsy is expected to be done at the Forensic Science Centre, St James on Wednesday.
Attong was reported missing last week Monday by a relative who noticed his pet dogs were not fed.
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BeatDball
2019-09-25 08:45:17
Heading for a failed state?
sgtdjones
2019-09-27 23:02:52
Cop charged with negligence after losing gun
A police officer with 17-years of service has been charged with the offence of negligence after he lost his firearm.
The officer, PC Joel Yarde, appeared before Arima Magistrate Cheron Raphael yesterday, where the charge was read against him.
The charge was laid by Cpl Garvin Bissessar.
After submissions to the court, bail was granted at $30,000, and the matter was adjourned to October 9.
Police said that on March 29, the officer left his personal firearm - a Glock pistol with 17 rounds of ammunition - in his vehicle which was parked along the Golden Grove Road, Arouca, and went into a grocery.
When he returned to the car, the vehicle had been broken into and his firearm, along with other items of value, were mising.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-27 23:04:00
Cop charged with robbing, threatening disabled vendor
A POLICE officer with 19 years’ service is expected to appear before a Port of Spain magistrate today on charges of misbehaviour in public office after he allegedly threatened to “prosecute” a vendor if he didn’t pay the officer $3,500.
The officer was held on Monday at the Emergency Response Patrol office at the Police Training Academy in St James during an exercise supervised by ACP Totaram Dookhie.
The Express was told that on June 13, the two officers, in a marked police vehicle, stopped the 36-year-old vendor who police said has a disability.
The two officers took the victim to the Maraval Police Station under the pretence of serving a summons on him.
At the station, they searched the victim’s car and found $3,500.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-27 23:05:16
Mini mart owner gunned down
Mini mart and car wash owner Jahdiel David Robinson was shot and killed in Mt D’or on Thursday night
Robinson, 24, who owns and operated the One Stop Mini Mart and Car Wash along Mt D’or Road, was killed at about 9.20p.m.
Police said that he was sitting on the roadway near his home just off Esperanza Drive, when he was approached by two men.
There was a brief conversation, following which the men pulled out firearms and shot him.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-27 23:07:42
Four wounded after Belmont shooting
Four men are receiving treatment for gunshot wounds they received while walking along Davis Street, Belmont, last night.
Police said the men ages, 53, 37, 54 and 19 were walking in a track at around 7.05 pm when they heard gunfire and ran away.
After running a short distance the man began to feel burning in different parts of their bodies including their legs, hands and mouth.
They were taken to the Port of Spain General Hospital where they were treated and listed in stable condition.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-27 23:09:44
Man stabbed to death by teen relative
An argument ended in death this afternoon when a 33-year-old Diego Martin man was stabbed by a teenaged relative at his home.
Police said Matthew St John got into an argument with his 19-year-old relative at his Hibiscus River Estate home.
St John had a knife at the time, but his relative snatched the knife and stabbed him several times.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-27 23:22:28
Teen with 9 guns gets bail, Griffith concerned justice system favours criminals
Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith is appealing to the authorities to reconsider the minimal bail clause, after a 19-year-old man who was arrested with nine high powered rifles was granted half a million dollars bail this week.
The Commissioner's office issued a statement about the matter this morning. Here is the full appeal made by Commissioner Griffith.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-29 01:15:16
MURDER 400
The murder of 30-year-old Curtly “Conehead” Calder in St James on Friday night has taken to homicide figure for 2019 to 400.
The same number of people were killed during the same period in 2018.
And in 2018, the murder toll ended at 516, which is the second deadliest year in this country’s history.
In 2008, this country recorded its deadliest year with 550 murders.
Calder, 30, of Upper Bournes Road, St James, was fatally shot at about 9.20p.m. on Friday in the vicinity of Twin’s Bar, which is located not too far from where he lives.
Police were told that Calder was liming with some friends when a vehicle drove by the area, and opened fire on the group.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-29 01:25:32
Roxborough women beaten with Bible
Calls for cops to be disciplined for poor response time
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Roxborough villagers are calling on Commissioner (CoP) of Police Gary Griffith to discipline officers from Union Street, Roxborough police station who took more than 30 minutes on Thursday morning to respond to reports that a male villager was terrorising women by beating them with a Bible.
In one instance, three women—two elderly, were being assaulted, just four houses away from the station.
The officer, responsible for driving the investigating officers, allegedly told villagers he "was bathing" when the incident occurred.
Recounting the incident, a villager, who prefers to remain unidentified because he is related to the assailant, said he was shocked by the situation.
"I was heading to work when I heard that my relative was running around the village slapping women with a Bible in the street. He slapped two women—one a TTPOST mistress, and they ran into another lady's house for safety. He followed them into the house and continued beating them," the man said.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-29 01:32:48
Mt D'or man dies after being shot
A 24-year-old man is dead after being shot while in Mt D'or on Thursday night.
He has been identified as Jahdiel David Robinson of the said area.
According to police reports, at about 9.30 pm residents of Esperanza Drive told police that Robinson had been shot by two armed men.
Robinson was taken to the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex but was pronounced dead on arrival.
A motive is yet to be determined for his killing.
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sgtdjones
2019-09-29 01:34:47
Intruders kill South businessman
Several years ago Satnarine Rampersad got a licensed firearm for protection after his businessplace was robbed many times.
As fate would have it, Rampersad, 57, fondly called Teddy, did not even get a chance to use the firearm to defend himself when five intruders broke into his home at Union Hall, San Fernando, around 4 am.
Police believe he was shot in the jaw while he slept on his bed. While he was bleeding to death, the intruders went to the downstairs apartment where they tied up and robbed his tenants, two female Chinese nationals, police said. They were robbed of TT $10,000, US$2,000 and their cellphones.
Nothing was taken from Rampersad, leaving his relatives and friends baffled as to why he was murdered.
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doosra
2019-09-29 02:04:30
In reply to sgtdjones
damn sarge
killing
sgtdjones
2019-09-29 02:48:12
In reply to doosra
Yes it's very sad
sgtdjones
2019-09-29 23:10:02
Ailing granny knifed to death in Gasparillo
The body of Chanday Lalloo, 64, was discovered this morning inside her home at King Street, Gasparillo.
The Express was told that she suffered a debilitating stroke five years ago, and walked with the aid of a stick.Lalloo was last seen alive at around 6p.m. on Saturday when she walked out of her street to a Lotto booth to make a play whe bet.
At around 7.30a.m. today, family members called on her. There was no answer.
Someone looked through the window and saw the walking stick.Believing she had fallen, relatives broke into the house. Lalloo was found dead with stab wounds to the neck, face and hands.
A pouch that contained her disability allowance, keys and other items was missing.It is believed that the killer/s locked the door on the way out.
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sgtdjones
2019-10-01 15:42:24
Belmont salesman abducted, killed
THERE have been no arrests for the murder of Richard Chan-Attong, 43 who was abducted from his Belmont home on September 16 and found dead in Santa Cruz days later.
Chan-Attong was employed as a salesperson with Mecalfab in Port of Spain and on September 16 he was abducted from his Belmont Circular Road, Belmont home. On the morning of September 20 he was found dead with two gunshot wounds at Saddle Road, Santa Cruz near to the Undercover plant nursery.
Police said that around 6 a.m. on September 16 Chan-Attong was seen being accosted by two men before being bundled into Chan-Attong’s grey Nissan Navara, TDL 571, which had been parked on the road.
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sgtdjones
2019-10-01 15:44:13
Horrific killing of dad 'full of laughter'
NEWLY retired after working for more than 40 years, Azard Ali was killed in his house at Princes Town by criminals who stole his car.
Ali, 60, was found in his house at Mandingo Road with hands and feet hog-tied and his mouth covered with a piece of cloth.
The former ministry of Works and Transport supervisor who lived alone was often the target of thieves, his family said.
The father of three had previously been attacked as he drove up to his gate, and had been the victim of several home invasions.
Over the weekend Ali, who was a cocaine user, was again attacked and it proved fatal.
His body, already decaying, was found in his house at daybreak Monday morning.
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Murders till End of Sept ...406
