A violent brazen attack on a Trinidad and Tobago police station has left one law enforcement officer dead and triggered a major investigation into a massive firearms heist, with authorities warning the number of stolen weapons could be far higher than initial recoveries suggest.
On Sunday, attackers stormed the San Fernando Municipal Police Station, located at King’s Wharf along Lady Hailes Avenue, where they killed Acting Corporal Anuska Eversley in a brutal assault that included beating, stabbing, and strangling. The raiders targeted the station’s secure armoury, making off with a yet undetermined number of firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition.
So far, law enforcement teams have recovered 38 stolen firearms following the robbery. But senior police officials confirmed this week that the recovered cache may represent less than half of the total weapons taken during the breach. An official audit is currently underway to pin down the exact number of missing weapons and ammunition, with early estimates putting the total stolen firearms at more than 100, alongside roughly 4,000 rounds of loose ammunition.
Assistant Commissioner of Police Surrendra Sagramsingh explained in a media interview that the San Fernando station plays an unusual, critical role in regional weapons storage: it hosts one of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS)’s most secure storage bunkers, and holds firearms not only for its own officers but also for multiple other regional police stations that borrow or store weapons there. This layered storage setup has complicated efforts to count the missing stock quickly.
“I can confirm that the figure of around 102 stolen weapons is plausible, it could be that number or even a little higher, but we have to complete our audit to be certain,” Sagramsingh said. “We’re cross-referencing all official records, because we have weapons that are permanently assigned to this station, and others that are on loan from or to other units. This station is one of our key hubs for surplus weapons storage to support operations across the region, so we have to trace every weapon that was held here, including those that were lent out to other departments recently, to get an accurate count.”
TTPS Commissioner Allister Guevarro confirmed Thursday that the full scope of the theft is still being mapped, and announced that the service is already rolling out urgent systemic reforms in response to the devastating security breach. “Immediate reforms are being introduced to strengthen firearm storage protocols across all our facilities and ensure strict adherence to all relevant policies and standing orders moving forward,” Guevarro stated, adding that the service is prioritizing closing gaps that allowed the attack to happen.