Six arrested as police seize firearms and drugs

Po­lice ar­rest­ed six peo­ple and seized three firearms, am­mu­ni­tion, cannabis and con­tra­band dur­ing State of Emer­gency op­er­a­tions car­ried out across sev­er­al po­lice di­vi­sions yes­ter­day.

Ac­cord­ing to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice, of­fi­cers con­duct­ed co­or­di­nat­ed ex­er­cis­es in the North­ern, North­ern North, North Cen­tral and North East­ern Di­vi­sions on Thurs­day.

In one op­er­a­tion, Task Force of­fi­cers of the North­ern North Di­vi­sion car­ried out an ex­er­cise be­tween 5.30 pm and 9 pm in the Tu­na­puna area. Of­fi­cers searched the home of a male sus­pect, where they found 11 ful­ly grown cannabis trees, 1.256 kilo­grammes of cannabis and four pieces of cam­ou­flage cloth­ing.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed the sus­pect in con­nec­tion with the finds.

Act­ing on in­tel­li­gence, the of­fi­cers lat­er searched a bushy area in Mal­oney, where they found a pis­tol fit­ted with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing 12 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion.

Su­per­in­ten­dent Mc Ken­zie and As­sis­tant Su­per­in­ten­dent Bale­wa co­or­di­nat­ed the ex­er­cise.

In a sep­a­rate op­er­a­tion, Task Force of­fi­cers of the North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion, as­sist­ed by per­son­nel of the Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment Op­er­a­tions Unit, St Joseph CID, Tu­na­puna CID, Arou­ca CID, Guard and Emer­gency Branch and the Ca­nine Unit, con­duct­ed an ex­er­cise be­tween 6 pm and 11 pm.

Dur­ing that ex­er­cise, of­fi­cers ar­rest­ed four sus­pects.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed an El Do­ra­do man af­ter al­leged­ly find­ing him with a Beretta pis­tol loaded with 14 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion. Of­fi­cers al­so ar­rest­ed a Ma­coya man for pos­ses­sion of cannabis, a Trinci­ty man in con­nec­tion with re­ports of ma­li­cious dam­age and threats to kill, and a Tu­na­puna man in re­la­tion to house break­ing and lar­ce­ny of­fences.

Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Gift, Su­per­in­ten­dent Jaikaran and As­sis­tant Su­per­in­ten­dent Pierre spear­head­ed the ex­er­cise.

In an­oth­er op­er­a­tion in the North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion, of­fi­cers searched a ware­house at Gar­den Vil­lage, Arou­ca, where they found quan­ti­ties of il­le­gal cig­a­rettes and al­co­hol.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed a 60-year-old Arou­ca man in con­nec­tion with the seizure.

Mean­while, Task Force of­fi­cers in the North East­ern Di­vi­sion con­duct­ed an ex­er­cise in Mor­vant be­tween 2.30 pm and 5.30 pm. Dur­ing a search of an aban­doned wood­en struc­ture, of­fi­cers found an AR-15 ri­fle fit­ted with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing 29 rounds of 5.56 am­mu­ni­tion.

W/Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent (Ag.) Guy-Al­leyne, Su­per­in­ten­dent Birch and As­sis­tant Su­per­in­ten­dent (Ag.) Cal­len­der led the ex­er­cise, which in­clud­ed of­fi­cers from the Ca­nine Branch.

Po­lice said in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to all of the mat­ters are con­tin­u­ing.