PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad– On Monday, the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) said that a suspected Venezuelan gang leader had been arrested on human trafficking charges following a “painstaking two-year investigation.”
Acting Police Commissioner Mc Donald Jacob, in congratulating officers “for their arduous work and dedication exhibited over a painstaking two-year investigation,” said he is pleased that there had been a breakthrough in the case, “leading to child trafficking charges being laid against a suspected Venezuelan gang leader.
“I am pleased that we have made another solid breakthrough, as these heartless criminals can never feel they have a free pass to operate in Trinidad and Tobago. The TTPS will continue to vigorously pursue and arrest those involved in trafficking in children, child prostitution, and other heinous crimes that feed on the suffering of the innocent and vulnerable,” Jacob said.
The police said that the Venezuelan is due to appear at the Chaguanas Magistrates’ Court in Central Trinidad later on Monday.
They said the accused was one of four Venezuelans intercepted in the Santa Flora district south of here last Friday. The law enforcement officers detained two men and two women who allegedly had a firearm, ammunition, and contraband in their possession.
The police said that following his arrest, one of the suspects was handed over to the Special Investigations Task Force (SITF), which conducted investigations into alleged crimes of human trafficking.
“The man was then charged with Trafficking in Children, Causing a Child to Become a Prostitute, Transporting a Person for Prostitution, and Being a Gang Leader,” the police said in the statement.
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