A Venezue­lan man’s at­tempt to es­cape po­lice cus­tody was thwart­ed yes­ter­day morn­ing when of­fi­cers from the Cunu­pia Po­lice Sta­tion quick­ly ap­pre­hend­ed him.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, the man had been ar­rest­ed and brought to the sta­tion some­time af­ter 9 am. Up­on ar­rival, of­fi­cers re­moved his hand­cuffs to con­duct fin­ger­print­ing. How­ev­er, the sus­pect seized the mo­ment to bolt out of the sta­tion, at­tempt­ing to evade cus­tody.

Of­fi­cers, in­clud­ing mem­bers of the Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment, re­spond­ed swift­ly and launched a search in the sur­round­ing area. The man was even­tu­al­ly found hid­ing in a dasheen patch be­hind the sta­tion by PC Tan­nis and oth­er of­fi­cers.

He was im­me­di­ate­ly re­ar­rest­ed and re­turned to the sta­tion, where he now faces ad­di­tion­al charges of es­cap­ing law­ful cus­tody.

—Rhon­dor Dowlat