A shocking security incident that ranks among the worst breaches of a police facility in recent Trinidad history has left a female municipal police officer dead and triggered a massive manhunt after more than 60 firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition were stolen from a station’s secure strongroom.
Trinidad and Tobago’s top police official, Commissioner Allister Guevarro, was among the first authorities to arrive at the San Fernando Municipal Police Station, located at King’s Wharf along Lady Hailes Avenue, after the breach was discovered early Sunday morning.
The victim has been identified as Anusha Eversley, an acting corporal serving with the Trinidad and Tobago Municipal Police Service (TTMPS). Preliminary investigative timelines show Eversley was last spotted on duty in the station’s charge room around 11 p.m. local time on Saturday. Nearly six hours later, at approximately 4:40 a.m. on Sunday, a fellow officer returned to the charge room and found the entire area engulfed in darkness. After flipping on the lights, the officer noticed what appeared to be blood seeping from the entrance of Eversley’s assigned quarters, and also spotted that the heavily secured strongroom had been compromised and forced open.
When investigators conducted an inventory of the secure storage, they uncovered the full scale of the theft: a huge cache of weapons and ammunition had been removed from the facility. Police sources have confirmed the missing arsenal includes roughly 52 Glock pistols, six shotguns, four MPX-style firearms, and more than 4,000 rounds of 9mm ammunition.
Responding officers found Eversley unresponsive on a mattress inside her quarters, and she was pronounced dead at the scene. Initial forensic observations note the corporal was partially clothed, and had visible bleeding from the nostrils. Investigators are working from early indications that Eversley may have been assaulted before her death, though this detail has not yet been formally confirmed as autopsies and further testing are pending.
In the immediate aftermath of the discovery, the entire police station was placed under lockdown, with senior investigative leads including Superintendent Persad and members of the Homicide Region III unit called in to lead the probe. Crime scene investigators have spent hours processing the location, collecting forensic trace evidence and running full fingerprint analyses to identify potential suspects. The San Fernando Municipal Police Station remains under heavy security lockdown as the dual investigation into Eversley’s killing and the weapons theft continues, with authorities working to trace the stolen firearms before they can be used in further criminal activity.