Two Las Cuevas men have been con­firmed among five na­tion­als cur­rent­ly de­tained by Venezue­lan au­thor­i­ties, af­ter they were al­leged­ly held on their way to col­lect a ship­ment of guns and il­le­gal drugs to bring back to Trinidad.

Guardian Me­dia was told by po­lice sources that the two men are re­port­ed­ly linked to crim­i­nal gangs op­er­at­ing along the North Coast – while the lone Venezue­lan op­er­a­tive was said to be af­fil­i­at­ed with the or­gan­ised crime syn­di­cate Tren de Aragua.

The ves­sel, which was in­ter­cept­ed ap­prox­i­mate­ly 60 nau­ti­cal miles off Cabo Codera, Venezuela, be­tween Au­gust 13 and 14, was al­leged­ly en route to col­lect nar­cotics and firearms des­tined for Trinidad.