Paula Lindo
ONE PERSON has been arrested in connection with a robbery at the Trotters Restaurant, Maraval Road, Port of Spain on November 7.
In a files launch on November 9, the police carrier said motorway patrol officers on a roving exercise in Port of Spain had been called to a robbery in growth at the restaurant.
When they arrived, they had been advised a suspect had fled on foot in direction of the Queen’s Park Savannah. They searched the method and apprehended any individual matching the outline of the suspect.
The actual person, a 21-year-frail from Jojo Lane, El Socorro, used to be arrested and brought to the Port of Spain CID.
Trotters’ proprietor Peter George, in a phone interview on November 9, advised Newsday the robbery came about around 10.30 pm, when the restaurant used to be in closing-down mode.
“It perceived to be a crime of change, a at ease-target peril. People had been wrapping up, there had been three or four vehicles in the auto automobile car parking lot, and they’d furthermore trust seen the indisputable fact that the transportation vehicles had been outdoors.
“There had been three or four young folks, opportunistic, unprofessional.
“They came in and got about a cellphones, about a pieces of tiny jewellery.
“Neither group nor customers had been hurt. The seven or eight customers who had been there had been extra frustrated than traumatised.”
George said he would be replacing the stolen items as great as seemingly. He said security would be enhanced at the restaurant, including extra lighting.
“It’s been 23 years with out an incident, and it’s very disheartening that this has took place.
“Our security consultants are engaged on boosting the safety. The cameras, and heaps others, we had in place helped the police to take grasp of the suspect.”
He said there had been old stories of suspicious exercise which had been reported to the St Clair police, who had been called, but the folk had disappeared by the time they arrived.
George said the police responded extremely hastily and did a sensational job in shooting now not now not as much as one robber hastily.
“It doesn’t elevate away from the indisputable fact that now we trust a crippling topic in the nation that is totally hampering now not staunch industry, but our day to day plan of existence. We affect trust an absolute crisis in the nation, and it’s now not getting any better.”
