A man is in po­lice cus­tody fol­low­ing a rob­bery at Trot­ters Restau­rant on Mar­aval Road, Port-of-Spain, on Thurs­day night.

Po­lice said the in­ci­dent oc­curred around 10.30 pm. Of­fi­cers re­ceived a call re­port­ing a rob­bery in progress. The sus­pects re­port­ed­ly fled on foot to­wards the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah. High­way Pa­trol of­fi­cers swift­ly re­spond­ed and man­aged to in­ter­cept one of the sus­pects, who was tak­en in­to cus­tody at the Port-of-Spain CID.

Po­lice said a group of armed men en­tered the pop­u­lar restau­rant with eight pa­trons still in­side. They robbed them of cash and valu­ables. Trot­ters own­er Pe­ter George said the rob­bery ap­peared to be an op­por­tunis­tic crime. George not­ed that oth­er events had tak­en place in the area that evening, pos­si­bly con­tribut­ing to the sus­pects’ choice of lo­ca­tion. “It was a crime, and it was an armed crime, but for­tu­nate­ly, no one was hurt,” he stat­ed.

George praised the po­lice for their re­sponse.

“The po­lice moved very quick­ly; they were ex­cep­tion­al,” George said. The sus­pect re­mains in po­lice cus­tody, where he will be ques­tioned.–

Rhon­dor Dowlat