Two held after firearm and ammunition seized

Two men were ar­rest­ed on Sun­day night af­ter po­lice of­fi­cers in­ter­cept­ed a ve­hi­cle in Quar­ry Vil­lage, Siparia, and al­leged­ly dis­cov­ered a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing a tar­get­ed op­er­a­tion.

Ac­cord­ing to a me­dia re­lease from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), of­fi­cers at­tached to the Siparia Po­lice Sta­tion act­ed on in­tel­li­gence and stopped a sil­ver Nis­san B15 along Thomp­son Trace, Quar­ry Vil­lage, at ap­prox­i­mate­ly 10:20 p.m. on Sun­day.

Po­lice said the ve­hi­cle was be­ing dri­ven by a 23-year-old man from Quar­ry Vil­lage, Siparia, while a 28-year-old man, al­so of Quar­ry Vil­lage, was seat­ed in the front pas­sen­ger seat.

Dur­ing a search of the ve­hi­cle, of­fi­cers re­port­ed­ly found a Smith & Wes­son firearm, a mag­a­zine and two rounds of 9-mil­lime­tre am­mu­ni­tion on the floor of the front pas­sen­ger side.

The oc­cu­pants were un­able to pro­vide le­gal doc­u­men­ta­tion au­tho­ris­ing pos­ses­sion of the firearm or am­mu­ni­tion, po­lice said.

Both men were cau­tioned in ac­cor­dance with the Judges’ Rules, in­formed of the of­fences and ar­rest­ed. They were sub­se­quent­ly tak­en to the Siparia Po­lice Sta­tion, where in­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.

The op­er­a­tion did not end with the ar­rests. Po­lice said fur­ther search­es were car­ried out at the sus­pects’ homes un­der Le­gal No­tice No. 40 of the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, 2026.

Dur­ing a search of the dri­ver’s res­i­dence, of­fi­cers al­leged­ly dis­cov­ered an ad­di­tion­al 24 rounds of 9mm am­mu­ni­tion con­cealed in­side a red bag be­hind a bed­room door.

The am­mu­ni­tion was seized as ev­i­dence.

The TTPS said the ar­rests and seizure form part of on­go­ing ef­forts to re­duce the num­ber of il­le­gal firearms in cir­cu­la­tion and im­prove pub­lic safe­ty.

In its state­ment, the po­lice ser­vice re­it­er­at­ed its com­mit­ment to com­bat­ing gun-re­lat­ed crime and pro­tect­ing cit­i­zens through­out the coun­try.

The TTPS al­so urged mem­bers of the pub­lic to con­tin­ue co­op­er­at­ing with law en­force­ment by pro­vid­ing in­for­ma­tion on il­le­gal firearms and oth­er crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty.