POLICE are investigating a report of a gang-rape of a 55-year-old Marabella woman on Saturday night.

The woman told police that on Saturday night around 9.50 pm she entered a “PH” taxi on SS Erin Road, Duncan Village, carrying three male passengers.

The woman said shortly after entering the taxi, one of the men dropped out of the car. The victim reported that upon reaching Cross Crossing, one of the passengers pulled out a firearm and held it to the driver’s neck, ordering him to stop the vehicle.

Reports indicate that the driver’s hands were tied and he was dumped into the trunk, while the other two men took over the car and drove to Perry Young Road, Princes Town, where they took turns raping her. The men abandoned the victim on the side of the road, and escaped with the vehicle. The woman made her way to the Princes Town police station where she lodged a report on the incident.

Investigations are continuing.

Labourer shot

A PART-TIME labourer who was shot three times on Friday is warded in a serious condition at the San Fernando General Hospital.

Darren Nagee, 23, of Dookee Street, Penal, told police around 8.30 pm, he was standing near Boopsingh Park, Penal, when he was approached by a man armed with a gun.

Nagee said the only thing the man told him before opening fire was “ah come to kill yuh”.

After shooting him in his abdomen and both legs, the gunman escaped on foot.

Villagers who heard the gun shots contacted the police and Nagee was rushed to the hospital where he is warded in a serious but stable condition.
Detective PC Douglas visited the scene and is conducting investigations.

Pirogue intercepted — Coast Guard seize 112 kilos ‘ganja’ — 3 arrested

THREE men from South Trinidad were arrested by Coast Guard Officers who boarded their pirogue in the Gulf of Paria and seized close to $2 million worth of compressed marijuana on Friday night.

The men, whose ages are 21, 26 and 45, will appear in court tomorrow to face the police charge of possession of marijuana for trafficking, and Customs charge of attempting to import an illegal item namely marijuana, into the country.

The pirogue in which the marijuana was found and the men arrested, have been impounded at the Coast Guard headquarters in Staubles Bay, Chaguaramas.

According to reports, around 10.30 pm, a Coast Guard cutter with Coast Guard and Customs and Excise officers, intercepted the pirogue in the Gulf of Paria.

The officers boarded the pirogue to carry out a routine search, when they discovered packets of compressed marijuana with a total weight of 112.5 kilos.

The marijuana were all wrapped in water-proof transparent cellophane.

The detained men were later handed over to investigators from the Organised Crime and Narcotics Unit (OCNU). Up to late yesterday the men were being interrogated by police.

WPC drinks poison

A WOMAN Police Officer attached to Northern Division has been admitted to Port-of-Spain General Hospital in critical condition after ingesting a toxic substance believed to be gramoxone at her home last Wednesday.

Although police are remaining tight-lipped about the incident, Newsday understands that the woman who was last attached to Tunapuna police station, was found frothing from the mouth at her home on Cleaver Road, Arima.

She was rushed to hospital for treatment by relatives. Up to late yesterday the woman remained hospitalised in Ward 34.

Police sources said no official report on the attempted suicide had been made as yet.

Police sources said the woman police officer had been depressed for sometime. Sources said she is the daughter of a prominent Arima attorney.