POLICE are advising members of the public to exercise extreme caution in purchasing avocados after a batch of poison-laced fruit was stolen from an estate in Tunapuna.
Investigators said the 60-year-old caretaker of the estate reported to them that he injected nearly 2,000 fruits with the weedicide Cypro to teach a lesson to thieves who were raiding his estate.
According to police, the caretaker of the Madoo Hill Estate, Tunapuna, went to the Tunapuna Police Station yesterday afternoon to report the theft of the poisoned crops.
The man showed up at the police station with the syringe he used and a container of the weedicide. He told police he was fed up of thieves making off with his fruits.
Officers at the Tunapuna Police Station visited the estate around 5.30 p.m. yesterday.
Cpl Sheldon Peterson is investigating.
