Caption: File- US Ambassador to T&T Candace Bond, right, with Minister of National Security Fitzgerald Hinds. Photo: Ministry of National Security
THE United States Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago, Candace Bond, says the arrest of a United States fugitive in T&T “is yet another shining example of what our two nations can accomplish together.”
Last Thursday, federal agents from the US Embassy, representing the United States Marshal Service (USMS), Diplomatic Security Service (DSS), and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), in collaboration with units from the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS), facilitated the arrest of the US citizen wanted for murder in the state of New York.
Neither the US nor the TPPS have named the suspect with the Embassy saying that the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and the Kings County, New York, District Attorney’s Office, played “key roles” and were “critical to the operation’s success.”
The Embassy said that the subject was arrested on an extradition warrant and “will be held in custody as the extradition process is finalised for his eventual return to the United States to face justice for his alleged crimes.”
“Our federal law enforcement agents at the embassy and TTPS, through fruitful working relationships established through conducting multiple successful operations together, have produced unprecedented results,” said Bond.
“This arrest is yet another shining example of what our two nations can accomplish together. We look forward to continuing our work together to return fugitives to face justice and provide closure for the families of the victims,” she added.
Las week, the police said that they unit had received information from an international source that sometime in January 2024, the suspect, a Trinidad and Tobago national and a resident of the US, was wanted by US authorities for the offences of murder, robbery with aggravation, possession of a firearm, possession of ammunition, possession of a firearm to endanger life and possession of ammunition to endanger life.
The police statement said the offences stem from a September 2021 incident during which the suspect allegedly discharged a firearm resulting in a victim’s death and that the suspect fled the US in October 2021, bound for Trinidad. (CMC)
