A 31-year-old woman was abducted and raped twice by a cutlass-wielding man on Sunday night in Morvant.
However, quick action by police officers of the North Eastern Division led to the arrest of a 35-year-old suspect of Wharton Street, Laventille.
The suspect was up to late last night in police custody and is expected to be charged.
According to police, the woman was walking along a roadway around 10 pm when she was approached by the man armed with a cutlass. The man dragged into nearby bushes and raped her. He then took her to an abandoned building in the area where he raped her again.
The woman, who managed to escape from the building at about 4.30 am yesterday, made her way to the Morvant Police Station where she reported the attack. She was taken to the Port-of-Spain General Hospital where she was medically examined.
In an unrelated incident, officers of the Gran Couva Police Station acting on a tip-off intercepted a black Nissan B-14 vehicle and arrested two men, seized an illegal firearm, ammunition and an quantity of marijuana yesterday. The vehicle, police said, is believed to have also been stolen.
Over the weekend in the Port-of-Spain Division, between Friday and Saturday, a 35-year-old man of Laventille was charged for possession of one Browning pistol and 12 rounds 9mm ammunition.
Officers also found and seized another Browning pistol, one magazine, five rounds .380 ammunition and 22 grammes marijuana with a street value of $33,000. No one was arrested in that case.
On Sunday, in a separate operation, at around 4.30 pm, PC Griffith along with a party of officers of the North Eastern Division Task Force were on patrol in the Malick, Barataria district when they found and recovered a silver Ford Ranger which was parked along the road. Police said the vehicle had been stolen sometime between 1.45 pm and 2.30 pm on Sunday at the Food Basket Hyper Market car park, Santa Rosa, Arima.
In Arima on Saturday, a 58-year-old man was arrested for possession of 2.4 grammes of marijuana.