Kidnapped Venezuelan woman released

Hours after 22-year-old Maryeisy Barrios Baldallo was kidnapped  from her Wallerfield home on Tuesday morning, she was released by her captors.

Baldallo was in the bedroom of her Demerara Road, Wallerfield, home with her husband Jofre Piñero Herrera at around 2.19 am when a group of gunmen stormed the house.

They subdued three other Venezuelan men who lived there  and bundled Baldallo into the back seat of a black Mitsubishi SUV before driving off.

Herrera left the house to get help before the bandits saw him.

Police said the captors dropped Baldallo off in Arima at around 6 pm. She took a taxi  home and her relatives called the police.

Arima CID officers took her to  hospital, where she was examined.

Investigators said Baldallo did not appear to have been harmed, but will interview her with the help of a translator.

Police said while investigations are ongoing, they suspect the kidnapping was not planned and was a crime of opportunity.

No one has yet been arrested. Arima CID police are continuing enquiries.