A man said to be an ex-pris­on­er is now al­leged­ly caus­ing fear and dis­tress to res­i­dents of San­gre Chiq­ui­to, San­gre Grande.

The 25-year-old man is al­leged­ly ha­rass­ing fe­male school chil­dren, steal­ing women’s panties, gen­er­al cloth­ing and oth­er house­hold items. The man, res­i­dents claim, is so bold-faced that he even wears the stolen cloth­ing soon af­ter­wards. He is al­so al­leged­ly ter­ror­is­ing res­i­dents and they are now com­plain­ing that the po­lice are not tak­ing the nec­es­sary ac­tion to pro­tect their girl chil­dren and them­selves.

Res­i­dents said on­ly yes­ter­day the man scaled the fence of a house and stole all the panties of a woman from her line. The woman was not at home at the time.

Chil­dren are al­so now afraid to walk the streets by them­selves be­cause of the ha­rass­ment they face from the man, who al­leged­ly at­tempts to touch them and tells them he wants them for plea­sure.

An­gry res­i­dents told T&T Guardian the last re­port they made to the po­lice was on Di­vali when he was ac­cused of steal­ing sev­er­al house­hold items. They claim he of­ten walks the street armed with a cut­lass and peo­ple are afraid to con­front him for fear of be­ing chopped and killed.

Res­i­dents, who asked not to be iden­ti­fied, said they have made sev­er­al re­ports to the San­gre Grande Po­lice Sta­tion but the man is still walk­ing free ter­ror­is­ing them.

A se­nior po­lice of­fi­cer at­tached to East­ern Di­vi­sion po­lice told T&T Guardian they are aware of the re­ports. He con­firmed the man is a sea­soned crim­i­nal and had been jailed for sev­er­al of­fences, in­clud­ing wound­ing, pos­ses­sion of drugs, break­ing and en­ter­ing, lar­ce­ny and pos­ses­sion of a dan­ger­ous weapon.

The of­fi­cer, how­ev­er, de­nied they have not been re­spond­ing to the res­i­dents’ re­ports. Rather, he said every time they go in search of the man he eludes them, as he has help from a woman he has a re­la­tion­ship with who al­so lives in the com­mu­ni­ty.

Res­i­dents are now mak­ing a spe­cial ap­peal to Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith to take ac­tion to ar­rest the man.