UPDATE: T&T authorities release lawyer detained for bank robbery
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March 11, 2014

UPDATE: T&T authorities release lawyer detained for bank robbery

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Trinidad police have released an attorney-at-law who was detained this week in connection to a multi-million dollar bank robbery in the twin island republic.

Reports are that Trinidad and Tobago Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard SC, said that there was not enough evidence to directly link the attorney to the offence.

The Trinidad Express reported that the 51-year-old criminal attorney was detained by police for questioning in connection with a TT$4.5 million robbery at Republic Bank’s Sangre Grande branch on Carnival Saturday.

“We obtained information that the attorney was one of the men who helped coordinate and plan the robbery,” an investigator in the case said.

Five other men are due to appear in court Thursday in connection to the multi-million dollar heist.

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