Three arrested in Southern Division anti-crime sweep

Rad­hi­ca de Sil­va

A tar­get­ed an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in the South­ern Di­vi­sion on Fri­day led to the ar­rest of three sus­pects as po­lice ramped up ef­forts to tack­le vi­o­lent and drug-re­lat­ed of­fences.

The four-hour ex­er­cise ran from mid­day to 4pm in the Princes Town Po­lice Dis­trict and fo­cused on known of­fend­ers linked to firearm of­fences, rob­beries, shoot­ings, wound­ings and the drug trade.

Dur­ing the sweep, of­fi­cers ar­rest­ed a 41-year-old man from Solomon Street, Cedar Hill, af­ter they al­leged­ly found 11.4 grammes of co­caine and 21 rounds of 9mm am­mu­ni­tion. He is al­so ex­pect­ed to face ID pa­rades for a rob­bery and a lar­ce­ny in the South­west­ern Di­vi­sion.

Two oth­er sus­pects were al­so held for rob­bery and firearm-re­lat­ed mat­ters.

Po­lice say the op­er­a­tion formed part of a wider crime sup­pres­sion plan in the di­vi­sion, sup­port­ed by in­tel­li­gence gath­er­ing, sur­veil­lance and tar­get­ed search­es in iden­ti­fied hot spots.