Firearm, ammunition and ecstasy seized in Diego Martin

Po­lice seized a firearm, nine rounds of am­mu­ni­tion and a quan­ti­ty of sus­pect­ed Ec­sta­sy dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in Diego Mar­tin on Tues­day.

Of­fi­cers of the West­ern Di­vi­sion Gang and In­tel­li­gence Unit (WDG­IU) con­duct­ed the ex­er­cise be­tween 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Mon­day.

Act­ing on in­tel­li­gence, of­fi­cers pro­ceed­ed to a res­i­dence at North Post Road, Diego Mar­tin, where they con­duct­ed a search un­der the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions 2026.

Dur­ing the search, of­fi­cers found a black met­al and plas­tic ob­ject bear­ing the mark­ings “Glock 19 Gen 5”, which po­lice said re­sem­bled a firearm.

The se­r­i­al num­ber was re­port­ed­ly filed off.

The ob­ject was fit­ted with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing nine rounds of 9mm am­mu­ni­tion.

Po­lice al­so con­duct­ed a search of a near­by area, where they found a clear plas­tic bag con­tain­ing ap­prox­i­mate­ly 7.9 grammes of a trans­par­ent, rock-like sub­stance sus­pect­ed to be Ec­sta­sy.

A hand­held two-way ra­dio trans­ceiv­er was al­so seized.

Fur­ther search­es were con­duct­ed at known drug blocks in the Riv­er Es­tate Bas­ket­ball Court, Mer­cer Road, Covi­gne Road and Toy­er Street, Pat­na Vil­lage.

Po­lice said no fur­ther il­le­gal items were found dur­ing those search­es.

The ex­er­cise was sanc­tioned by Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Williams and led by Act­ing As­sis­tant Su­per­in­ten­dent Bur­ris, with of­fi­cers of the WDG­IU pro­vid­ing over­sight and co­or­di­na­tion.

The po­lice said en­quiries are con­tin­u­ing in­to the seizures.

The op­er­a­tion forms part of on­go­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es be­ing con­duct­ed by the po­lice dur­ing the pe­ri­od of the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions 2026.