Mem­bers of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) now be­lieve they have dis­man­tled a crim­i­nal gang linked to ap­prox­i­mate­ly 24 re­ports of home in­va­sions over a six-week pe­ri­od in Cen­tral Trinidad, fol­low­ing an ex­er­cise which re­sult­ed in the deaths of four of its mem­bers over the week­end.

Mem­bers of the “Tall Boots Crew” had sev­er­al Cen­tral com­mu­ni­ties un­der siege be­fore their ac­tiv­i­ties came to a dra­mat­ic halt fol­low­ing a po­lice ex­er­cise in Cunu­pia on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

Po­lice said the gang, named in­for­mal­ly by Cunu­pia res­i­dents due to their use of tall gar­den­ing boots dur­ing their as­saults on homes, was re­port­ed­ly linked to home in­va­sions in Cunu­pia, Ch­agua­nas, Freeport and as far north as Las Lo­mas, be­gin­ning in late March.