Police recover 43 firearms and over 900 rounds in municipal station theft

A to­tal of 10 per­sons re­main in cus­tody and 43 firearms and over 900 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion have been re­cov­ered in the on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the theft of weapons from the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion on Sun­day 19th April 2026.

In an amend­ed state­ment, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) said the re­cov­ery fig­ure cov­ers a se­ries of co­or­di­nat­ed op­er­a­tions con­duct­ed be­tween Sun­day 19th and Tues­day 21st April 2026.

Dur­ing one op­er­a­tion in the Clax­ton Bay dis­trict, of­fi­cers of the High­way Pa­trol South Op­er­a­tions Team in­ter­cept­ed a white Kia K2700 with three male oc­cu­pants. A search of the ve­hi­cle led to the dis­cov­ery of 13 firearms, 12 mag­a­zines, 288 rounds of 9mm am­mu­ni­tion and ten 12-gauge car­tridges. The three men were ar­rest­ed.

The TTPS said this fol­lowed ear­li­er joint op­er­a­tions in­volv­ing of­fi­cers of the South­ern Di­vi­sion, Spe­cial Branch and the Home In­va­sion Team, which re­sult­ed in the seizure of 30 firearms and 612 rounds of 9mm am­mu­ni­tion and the ar­rest of sev­en sus­pects.

Po­lice said the fig­ures rep­re­sent a con­sol­i­dat­ed to­tal as in­ves­ti­ga­tions progress, with re­cov­ered items be­ing ver­i­fied and ac­count­ed for as part of the on­go­ing probe.

How­ev­er, some vari­a­tion re­mains in how the re­cov­ered weapons have been bro­ken down across of­fi­cial up­dates.

In ear­li­er brief­in­gs, Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro list­ed 38 firearms re­cov­ered, in­clud­ing an MPX sub­ma­chine gun, shot­gun, re­volver and pis­tols, along­side 929 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der, speak­ing in the Sen­ate, con­firmed the 10 per­sons in cus­tody and gave a slight­ly dif­fer­ent break­down of re­cov­ered weapons, in­clud­ing one MPX sub­ma­chine gun, four shot­guns, one re­volver and 39 pis­tols, along­side around 900 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion.

He said: “Since this in­ci­dent oc­curred less than 48 hours ago, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice has worked around the clock. I have con­firmed that, ac­cord­ing to the in­for­ma­tion from the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, that 10 men, ages 16 to 33, are cur­rent­ly in po­lice cus­tody. We have made sig­nif­i­cant progress in the re­cov­ery of these stolen hard­ware, in­clud­ing one MPX sub­ma­chine gun, four shot­guns, one re­volver, and 39 pis­tols… that in­cludes al­so 900 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion.”

The TTPS said in­ves­ti­ga­tions re­main on­go­ing and fur­ther op­er­a­tional up­dates are ex­pect­ed as the probe con­tin­ues.