PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) - Four airport security guards were charged yesterday with pulling a passenger off a plane, forcing him into a room and robbing him, police said.
Rishi Seusaran, a 20-year-old from the southern city of San Fernando, had boarded a flight to New York last Tuesday, police Constable Nirmal Ramjattan said. The security guards told him there was a problem with his passport and he would have to go with them, he said.After getting off the flight, they forced him into a room and stole his gold rings, chains, pendant and earrings worth Trinidadian $28,000 (US$4,700), Ramjattan said.
They took Seusaran's passport and told him he would have to pay Trinidadian $8,000 (US$1,300) to have it returned, police said.
He reported the crime to police, who set up a sting operation the next day near the airport, where they arrested two of the security guards after they accepted a payment for the passport, Ramjattan said. The other two were arrested when they showed up for work that day, he said.
Police identified the men as Dave Oliver, 34, David Wiltshire, 36, Curtis James, 38, and Cuthbert Jeremie, 41. They were each charged with kidnapping, robbery, illegally demanding money and obtaining money by false pretenses.
