One man has been ar­rest­ed and a cache of il­le­gal am­mu­ni­tion and cannabis seized fol­low­ing a po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing in the North East­ern Di­vi­sion last night.

Re­ports in­di­cate of­fi­cers were on mo­bile pa­trol around 10:45 pm on Sun­day 28 June 2026 when they re­ceived in­for­ma­tion about a sus­pi­cious ve­hi­cle in the Pax Vale, San­ta Cruz dis­trict. Up­on ar­rival, of­fi­cers ob­served the ve­hi­cle which al­leged­ly sped off prompt­ing a pur­suit with sirens and emer­gency lights ac­ti­vat­ed.

Dur­ing the chase the ve­hi­cle was in­ter­cept­ed along Pos­i­tive Street where an armed oc­cu­pant re­port­ed­ly ex­it­ed the rear and fired two shots at the po­lice ve­hi­cle. In ac­cor­dance with the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice Use of Force Pol­i­cy an of­fi­cer re­turned fire in the di­rec­tion of the as­sailant who fled in­to an emp­ty par­cel of land and es­caped.