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A stolen Toyota Aqua crashed on the Churchill Roosevelt Highway early Sunday after officers from the Trinidad and Tobago Prison Service’s Operational Unit intervened in an apparent getaway. The vehicle, a Toyota Aqua valued at $70,000, was stolen hours earlier from outside Cornerstone Bar at Bhagoutie Trace, Aranguez. Police said the owner, a 27-year-old man of Aranguez, had left the vehicle parked along Oudan Trace around 1 a.m. and went inside the bar to attend a party with friends. He told officers he had been drinking and initially searched for the car himself before making a report. By 8 a.m., officers from the Prison Service Operational Unit spotted the stolen Aqua in convoy with a brown Volkswagen Jetta along the eastbound lane of the Churchill Roosevelt Highway. Investigators said the triangular glass of the stolen Aqua had been smashed, and the driver, upon hearing the sirens at the Piarco traffic lights, breached the red light, made a sudden right turn and crashed into two vehicles, causing them to flip. The driver then attempted to escape on foot into nearby bushes, but collapsed due to injuries sustained in the collision. He was later treated at the Arima Health Facility and then detained. The other vehicle in the convoy, a Volkswagen Jetta, stopped at the scene and its driver was detained. Both men are from El Socorro and Laventille. The Toyota Aqua was wrecked to the Arouca Police Station. The Jetta was taken to Piarco Police Station
