Six Venezue­lan na­tion­als were held while at­tempt­ing to en­ter the coun­try il­le­gal­ly on Tues­day night. In a state­ment yes­ter­day, the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) praised its of­fi­cers, along with the T&T Coast Guard (TTCG), for the in­ter­cep­tion.

The TTPS said act­ing on in­tel­li­gence re­ceived from the Na­tion­al Radar Cen­tre, a TTCG team from the Ce­dros base, in­clud­ing Pet­ty Of­fi­cer Seecha­ran, Able Sea­man King and Lead Elec­tri­cian Adams in­ter­cept­ed a sus­pi­cious ves­sel off the coast of Ica­cos around 10 pm on Tues­day.

Po­lice said the pirogue, which was head­ing to­wards Trinidad’s south-west­ern shores, was found to be car­ry­ing six Venezue­lans.