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A ma­jor in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion con­duct­ed be­tween 6:30 p.m. on Oc­to­ber 3 and 5:00 a.m. on Oc­to­ber 4, 2025, re­sult­ed in the dis­rup­tion of a con­tra­band smug­gling at­tempt near the Arou­ca Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison.

The co­or­di­nat­ed ex­er­cise was di­rect­ed by Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro, Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Suzette Mar­tin, and Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent of Pris­ons Lee Davis. It in­volved per­son­nel from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force (TTDF) Spe­cial­ist Units, Port of Spain Task Force, Mul­ti Op­er­a­tional Po­lice Sec­tion, Crime Scene Unit, Trinidad and To­ba­go Prison Ser­vice, and the Spe­cial In­ves­tiga­tive Unit.

The op­er­a­tion fol­lowed cred­i­ble in­tel­li­gence that in­di­vid­u­als were us­ing a drone to de­liv­er con­tra­band in­to the prison. Of­fi­cers pro­ceed­ed to the Forde Street Ex­ten­sion, Bon Air area, where sur­veil­lance was car­ried out. A search of near­by bush­land led to the ar­rest of two sus­pects—a 13-year-old of Orop­une Gar­dens and a 26-year-old of Tu­na­puna—af­ter they at­tempt­ed to flee through veg­e­ta­tion and leapt from a 25-foot em­bank­ment. Both were cap­tured fol­low­ing a tar­get­ed search of a near­by riv­er.