EIGHT Venezuelans remained at large yesterday after 14 detainees escaped from the Immigration Detention Centre in Arima on Saturday afternoon following an assault on detention officers.According to police, the incident occurred at about 3.40 p.m. when a detention officer on sentry duty detected smoke coming from the Male Housing Unit and alerted a supervisor.
FUGITIVE: Edison Monroy
FUGITIVE: Ernesto Jose Figuera Caicedo
FUGITIVE: Everth Ramirez
The two officers entered the housing unit to investigate but were confronted by a group of male detainees who assaulted and overpowered them before pushing open a gate and fleeing the facility.Police said the detainees escaped along the western corridor, exited the compound and fled over the southern perimeter fence. An alarm was raised immediately and law enforcement officers responded.Four of the escapees were recaptured within minutes, with two held while attempting to scale the perimeter fence and two apprehended in the vicinity of the fence outside the compound.
