Four held after Tobago gun seizure

Stephon Nicholas

Four peo­ple are in po­lice cus­tody af­ter of­fi­cers seized two high-pow­ered weapons, am­mu­ni­tion and oth­er items dur­ing an op­er­a­tion in To­ba­go.

The joint po­lice and mil­i­tary op­er­a­tion took place around 12.35am on Mon­day in the Sig­nal Hill/Pa­tience Hill area.

In a video re­leased on Mon­day, As­sis­tant Su­per­in­ten­dent Ma­halia Bac­chus said of­fi­cers re­cov­ered a Mac-10 and a Kel-Tec sub­ma­chine gun, along with a quan­ti­ty of am­mu­ni­tion, sev­er­al cell­phones and cam­ou­flage cloth­ing.

Flanked by In­spec­tor Andy Mo­hammed of the CID and PC An­toine of the To­ba­go Di­vi­sion­al Task Force, Bac­chus con­firmed four sus­pects are in po­lice cus­tody as in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue.

She urged the pub­lic to con­tin­ue sup­port­ing the po­lice by shar­ing in­for­ma­tion to help iden­ti­fy and ar­rest those in­volved in crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty.

Bac­chus said Op­er­a­tion Res­olute Shield re­mains in ef­fect, with of­fi­cers con­tin­u­ing ground sup­pres­sion ex­er­cis­es aimed at dis­man­tling il­le­gal ac­tiv­i­ties.