Two arrested in firearm and drug seizures

Two men were ar­rest­ed and a firearm and nar­cotics seized dur­ing po­lice ex­er­cis­es in the West­ern and East­ern Di­vi­sions on Fri­day.

At 9:11 a.m., of­fi­cers of the West­ern Di­vi­sion, in­clud­ing W/Cpl Cu­pid, Ag. Cpl Pe­ters and Cpl Frith, act­ed on in­for­ma­tion about a man in a Hon­da Vezel with a firearm. Of­fi­cers found the ve­hi­cle in a su­per­mar­ket car park near an ATM. W/Cpl Cu­pid and WPC Joseph ap­proached and saw one man in­side.

Po­lice iden­ti­fied them­selves, in­formed the man of the re­port and searched him. Of­fi­cers found a Spring­field Ar­mory Hell­cat pis­tol with an emp­ty mag­a­zine. The man said he did not hold a Firearm User’s Li­cence and that his wife was the li­cence hold­er. A search of the ve­hi­cle found noth­ing else.

The sus­pect, of Good­wood Park, was ar­rest­ed and tak­en to the Four Roads Po­lice Sta­tion.

In a sep­a­rate ex­er­cise be­tween 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., of­fi­cers of the East­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force car­ried out an op­er­a­tion in the San­gre Grande dis­trict.

Af­ter sur­veil­lance, of­fi­cers in­ter­cept­ed a 39-year-old man of Caigual Road, San­gre Chiq­ui­to, dri­ving a Nis­san March along the East­ern Main Road, Damarie Hill.

A search of the ve­hi­cle led to the dis­cov­ery of a box with 11 pack­ages of cannabis. The drugs weighed 5.7 kilo­grammes and have an es­ti­mat­ed val­ue of $171,000.

The sus­pect was ar­rest­ed and tak­en to the San­gre Grande Po­lice Sta­tion with the nar­cotics.