Police seize firearm, ammunition in Morvant

Po­lice have seized a high-pow­ered firearm and 28 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in Mor­vant, as law en­force­ment con­tin­ues ef­forts to dis­rupt the flow of il­le­gal weapons.

Ac­cord­ing to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), of­fi­cers at­tached to the North East­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force car­ried out Op­er­a­tion R.E.S.O.L.U.T.E. Shield be­tween 4 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. on Sun­day in the Mor­vant dis­trict.

Dur­ing the ex­er­cise, of­fi­cers went to an aban­doned wood­en and con­crete struc­ture along Hillview Road, Mon Re­pos, where they con­duct­ed a search.

Po­lice said the search led to the dis­cov­ery of a Mi­ni Dra­co pis­tol cham­bered in 7.62 x 39 cal­i­bre. The weapon was fit­ted with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing 28 rounds of 7.62 am­mu­ni­tion.

No ar­rests were re­port­ed in con­nec­tion with the seizure up to Sun­day evening, and in­ves­ti­ga­tors are con­tin­u­ing in­quiries to de­ter­mine who was in pos­ses­sion of the firearm and how it came to be at the lo­ca­tion.

The op­er­a­tion was spear­head­ed by W/Snr Supt Guy-Al­leyne and Supt Birch. It was co­or­di­nat­ed by Ag/ASP Cal­len­der and Ag/In­sp Ram­s­ingh and su­per­vised by Sgt Mar­tin, to­geth­er with of­fi­cers of the North East­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force.

The seizure forms part of on­go­ing in­tel­li­gence-dri­ven polic­ing op­er­a­tions aimed at re­mov­ing il­le­gal firearms from com­mu­ni­ties and dis­rupt­ing crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty across the North East­ern Di­vi­sion.

Po­lice have not in­di­cat­ed whether the weapon is linked to any on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions or re­cent vi­o­lent in­ci­dents. The firearm and am­mu­ni­tion have been seized for fur­ther foren­sic ex­am­i­na­tion as in­ves­ti­ga­tors work to es­tab­lish their ori­gin and any pos­si­ble con­nec­tion to crim­i­nal of­fences.