Four men were arrested on Christmas Day after a car chase and a crash involving a stolen car near the UWI St Augustine Campus.
Police said around 6.45 pm on December 25, an off-duty policeman saw a gold Nissan Tiida with four suspicious-looking occupants driving recklessly along the Eastern Main Road near Auzonville Road. Cpl Stevenson, acting on his instincts, followed the car.
The suspects, realising they were being pursued, tried to get away. Their escape attempt ended when they crashed into a concrete barrier near the Priority Bus Route outside the UWI campus gate on St Augustine Circular Road.
The four occupants ran into the UWI grounds but were quickly apprehended after co-ordinated efforts by the North Division Operations Centre (NDOC), UWI campus police, and the North Central Division Area West Task Force.
The four suspects – a 34-year-old from Malabar; a 31-year-old from Petit Bourg; a 24-year-old from St Joseph and Duncan Street, Port of Spain; and a 21-year-old from Nelson Street – were taken into custody.
Checks showed the Tiida had false licence plates and had been reported stolen in a robbery with violence on December 16.
Police also said one of the suspects is a person of interest in another case involving the attempted robbery of a woman at Express House, Independence Square, on December 24.
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