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Saturday, February 22, 2025

$.75M bail for woman charged with extorting Freeport businesses

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29 days ago
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A Freeport busi­ness­woman has been grant­ed bail with sure­ty for $750,000, af­ter she ap­peared in court charged with ex­tor­tion.

The TTPS, in a state­ment yes­ter­day, said Sab­ri­na Kalleechar­ran was charged with five counts of de­mand­ing mon­ey with men­aces and one count of rob­bery when she ap­peared be­fore Mas­ter Am­brose Per­sad-Singh at the Ch­agua­nas Mas­ters’ Court on Wednes­day (Jan­u­ary 22).She was not asked to en­ter a plea.

As part of her bail con­di­tion, the woman must re­port to a Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Po­lice Sta­tion three days a week be­tween 6 am and 6 pm, have no con­tact with the vir­tu­al com­plainants di­rect­ly or in­di­rect­ly, re­side at her ad­dress un­til the com­ple­tion of the mat­ter and ob­serve a cur­few be­tween 6 pm and 6.15 am every day.

The ar­rest and charges stemmed from re­ports made by sev­er­al mem­bers of the Freeport busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty that “they were be­ing ex­tort­ed and the al­leged tar­gets of vile and vi­o­lent threats from the per­pe­tra­tors.”

Po­lice said an in­ves­ti­ga­tion dis­cov­ered “that a fe­male busi­ness own­er of the area had co-or­di­nat­ed with a high-risk in­mate of the Port-of-Spain prison to sup­ply per­son­al de­tails about the vic­tims be­ing ex­tort­ed.”

Of­fi­cers ar­rest­ed a sus­pect and said they put a dent in a sig­nif­i­cant ex­tor­tion ring op­er­at­ing with­in the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty.


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