Cops arrest nine, seize marijuana during three-day crackdown

A to­tal of nine peo­ple were ar­rest­ed in Mal­oney be­tween Tues­day and Thurs­day, among them sus­pects in a shoot­ing in­ci­dent which trig­gered the in­tro­duc­tion of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions in the com­mu­ni­ty in the first place.

Ac­cord­ing to a T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) me­dia re­lease yes­ter­day, po­lice ex­e­cut­ed a se­ries of “in­tel­li­gence-led” ini­tia­tives aimed at en­hanc­ing safe­ty, while dis­rupt­ing crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty.

As part of this, it said five search­es were con­duct­ed across 329 apart­ments in ten build­ings, which led to the ar­rest of four peo­ple in re­la­tion to the shoot­ing on Mon­day. A pis­tol was al­so seized dur­ing the ex­er­cise.

The state­ment al­so re­port­ed that five peo­ple on out­stand­ing war­rants were al­so ar­rest­ed on Thurs­day night, with sup­port from the po­lice Ca­nine Unit as­sist­ing in the seizure of pack­ets of mar­i­jua­na.

The TTPS al­so re­port­ed that 181 cur­few per­mits were is­sued to res­i­dents and au­tho­rised peo­ple seek­ing ac­cess to the closed area.

“The Closed Area re­mains se­cured, while of­fi­cers con­tin­ue to mon­i­tor and con­trol all en­try and ex­it points. Mem­bers of the TTDF, IATF and the GEB are al­so con­duct­ing re­as­sur­ance pa­trols across the op­er­a­tional sec­tors with­in the area,” the re­lease said.