Trinidad: Teen sons of prominent lawyer held with drugs

By Stabroek News On In Trinidad & Tobago News |
Police officers at the scene of the arrest of teenage brothers in Maraval, Trinidad on Saturday.
Police officers at the scene of the arrest of teenage brothers in Maraval, Trinidad on Saturday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two teen broth­ers and a pen­sion­er were ar­rest­ed at their re­spec­tive homes in Mar­aval on Sat­ur­day morn­ing for drug pos­ses­sion.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, po­lice of­fi­cers from the St Clair Po­lice Sta­tion con­duct­ed an ex­er­cise be­tween 6 am and 10 am.

Dur­ing the ex­er­cise, of­fi­cers ex­e­cut­ed a search war­rant at the Fair­ways, Mar­aval home of two sus­pects—a 19-year-old and a 17-year-old. The boys are re­port­ed­ly the sons of a promi­nent at­tor­ney-at-law in this coun­try.

Po­lice said the 19-year-old was ar­rest­ed for pos­ses­sion of 20 grammes of mar­i­jua­na, while the 17-year-old was held for .18 grammes of mar­i­jua­na.

In a sep­a­rate in­ci­dent, of­fi­cers pro­ceed­ed to the Boissiere Vil­lage, Mar­aval home of a 71-year-old man, where they con­duct­ed a search and found 80 grammes of co­caine.

The man was ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the find. The ex­er­cis­es were co­or­di­nat­ed by ACP Williams along with Snr Supt (Ag) Moore and su­per­vised by In­sp Lutch­man and W/Sgt Chase al­so in­clud­ed of­fi­cers of the Port of Spain Di­vi­sion Task Force. In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing.