Mem­bers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) moved swift­ly to res­cue a four-year-old boy af­ter a ve­hi­cle theft es­ca­lat­ed in­to an ab­duc­tion on Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, around 3 pm a 51-year-old man re­port­ed that his white Nis­san Navara had been stolen along Guaico Tamana Road in San­gre Grande with his son in­side.

Po­lice said the sus­pect, known to the vic­tim, drove off with the child, prompt­ing an im­me­di­ate re­sponse. The ve­hi­cle was lo­cat­ed short­ly af­ter at a near­by lo­ca­tion, with the child found un­harmed in­side. A 40-year-old sus­pect was ar­rest­ed by of­fi­cers of the San­gre Grande Po­lice Sta­tion, while the child was med­ical­ly ex­am­ined and found to be in good health.