Police are investigating an armed robbery aboard a cargo vessel docked along the Port of Spain waterfront on Sunday night.
According to reports, around 10.30 p.m., a group of approximately 12 men, armed with firearms, cutlasses and axes, boarded the vessel Sea Elizabeth II, which was moored alongside a barge near the Hyatt Regency Trinidad for repairs.
The assailants announced a robbery and relieved the vessel’s captain, a Grenadian national, along with two crew members, a Vincentian national and a Trinidad-based shipmate, of several items.
Stolen were multiple cellular phones, including Samsung devices, gold and silver jewellery, a GPS system valued at $16,000, a 100-pound oxygen tank, a 100-pound gas tank, an inflatable dinghy valued at TT$35,000, and a small engine valued at $20,000.
The criminals escaped in a pirogue.
However, around 5 a.m. on Monday, the captain reported seeing a group of men in a pirogue return to the vessel and attach a dinghy before leaving. Upon inspecting it, crew members discovered it was the same dinghy stolen during the robbery, with several of the missing items inside, including an engine, gas tank, turbo, motor and oil pump.
