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Police in Grenada have confirmed that a man apprehended by law enforcement officials in Trinidad and Tobago over a week ago, Neron Pascal is wanted in the Spice Isle.

Pascal has been on the run from local law enforcement officials since the passage of hurricane Ivan last September. The lawmen in Grenada say that their Trinidadian counterparts were able to make a positive identification following certain information forwarded to them from St. George's.

Pascal was on remand at the Richmond Hill prisons after he was charged with the brutal rape of a Birch Grove woman last year. He was among over two hundred inmates who fled due to extensive damage done to the Prisons following the passage of Ivan five months ago.

Residents of Birch Grove had reported sighting the prisoner at a hide-out close to St. Margaret Falls a month after the hurricane. A source told GRENADA TODAY that Pascal, a former Security Guard, was captured after the lawmen in the twin island Republic were reportedly called in to deal with a family dispute involving a man they believed to be his father and his common-law wife.

There are reports that the woman might have played a role in the apprehension of the inmate after it was alleged that she had alerted police about a man hiding out in the house who is a wanted prisoner in Grenada.

He spoke of the Trinidadians moving in and taking Pascal into custody and soon made certain requests for information from their Grenadian counterparts. Media Consultant with the Royal Grenada Police Force (RGPF), Troy Garvey confirmed to this paper that the local lawmen did receive such a request from their counterparts in the twin island Republic.

He spoke of the Trinidadians needing the information in order for them to make a positive identification because certain documents found in the possession of the individual appeared not authentic. It is still not clear whether law enforcement officials in Trinidad will charge the prisoner who had spent most of his childhood in that country for illegal entry.

Since the passage of hurricane, a number of Grenadian inmates were rounded up while others were held in neighbouring St. Vincent and the Grenadines. A number of them mostly foreigners are still unaccounted for and might have fled Grenada for their homeland.

Pascal is the second inmate on the run to have been captured in Trinidad. Last year, Trinidad national Chanderalli Mahabir who wa serving a sentence in Grenada for drug possession was also apprehended by law enforcement officials in that country.