Jamaican Escapes from Trinidad Airport Immigration

Refused entry, Jamaican bolts from Piarco International Airport and disappears

A Ja­maican na­tion­al who was re­fused en­try in­to Trinidad on Fri­day night and was de­tained by im­mi­gra­tion of­fi­cers lat­er es­caped from the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.

Sources told Trinidad's Sun­day Guardian newspaper that the Ja­maican man in his ear­ly 20s had ar­rived in Trinidad aboard a Caribbean Air­lines flight from Kingston, Ja­maica on Fri­day night.

The man who has sev­er­al pend­ing drug re­lat­ed issues in Ja­maica at­tempt­ed to en­ter Trinidad three times be­fore, but was stopped and placed on a flight back to Ja­maica.

Sun­day Guardian was in­formed that the man was stopped by im­mi­gra­tion au­thor­i­ties and lat­er placed in an im­mi­gra­tion de­ten­tion hold­ing room at the air­port. "They were plan­ning to send him back on a Sat­ur­day flight to Kingston," a source ex­plained.

How­ev­er, when im­mi­gra­tion of­fi­cers went to check on the man around 3:30 am on Sat­ur­day, he could not be found. The of­fi­cers lat­er dis­cov­ered that the man had re­moved a ceil­ing tile in the roof of the room and climbed in­side the area. 

Sources said they be­lieve the man crawled through the air ducts and was able to gain ac­cess to a pub­lic area where he lat­er jumped down and es­caped from the air­port.

Im­mi­gra­tion au­thor­i­ties swept the air­port for sev­er­al hours look­ing for the run­away sus­pect but he could not be found. The mat­ter was re­port­ed to the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice and is cur­rent­ly be­ing in­ves­ti­gat­ed.