Ski mask, gun found after Tabaquite police chase

Three men were ar­rest­ed af­ter po­lice found a firearm, am­mu­ni­tion and a black ski mask dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in Tabaquite on Wednes­day night.

The ar­rests were made dur­ing an Op­er­a­tion Res­olute Shield ex­er­cise con­duct­ed by of­fi­cers of the Bras­so and Gran Cou­va Po­lice Sta­tions be­tween 7 pm and 11 pm on No­vem­ber 4.

Ac­cord­ing to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), of­fi­cers on a joint mo­bile pa­trol re­spond­ed to a re­port of masked men in the area around 7.35 pm.

The of­fi­cers went to a track off Cito Lane, where they spot­ted three men match­ing the de­scrip­tion giv­en. One of the men was re­port­ed­ly wear­ing a mask.

When the men saw the of­fi­cers, they ran off, prompt­ing a chase. All three were even­tu­al­ly caught.

The sus­pects are a 24-year-old man from Flana­gain Town, a 22-year-old man from Williamsville and a 25-year-old res­i­dent of Tabaquite.

Po­lice said a firearm con­tain­ing four rounds of nine-mil­lime­tre am­mu­ni­tion and a black ski mask were found in the pos­ses­sion of one of the men.

Two ad­di­tion­al rounds of nine-mil­lime­tre am­mu­ni­tion were found in an­oth­er sus­pect's pock­ets, while the third man was found with three rounds of the same am­mu­ni­tion.

Mean­while, po­lice seized an­oth­er firearm dur­ing a sep­a­rate an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in Cara­po and ar­rest­ed a man want­ed on an out­stand­ing war­rant.

The op­er­a­tion was con­duct­ed by of­fi­cers of the North­ern North Di­vi­sion Task Force be­tween 11 pm on Wednes­day and 2 am on Thurs­day.

Act­ing on in­tel­li­gence, of­fi­cers searched a bushy area near Uni­ty Lane, Cara­po, where they found a small black plas­tic bag con­cealed be­neath gal­vanised sheets.

The bag con­tained a red glove and a firearm with two rounds of nine-mil­lime­tre am­mu­ni­tion.

Of­fi­cers sub­se­quent­ly went to Damarie Hill, Guaico, where they ar­rest­ed a man want­ed on an out­stand­ing war­rant.

The TTPS said in­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing.