Cop arrested for threatening to kill wife and child
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — A policeman from the Valencia Criminal Investigations Department has been arrested after allegedly making threats to kill his wife and their two-year-old daughter.
According to a statement from the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS), the woman reported that she was at the Sangre Grande home of her mother in the company of her daughter around 8:20 pm on Wednesday when her 31-year-old husband arrived and took the child away.
She said she called him on his mobile phone and during the conversation he made threats to kill her and the child.
A report was made to the Sangre Grande Police Station and an investigation was launched into the incident.
The suspect was later arrested by officers of the Gender-Based Violence Unit. The TTPS said a firearm and a firearm users’ licence were taken from him.
