An­na-Lisa Paul

an­na-lia.paul@guardian.co.tt

Se­nior Re­porter

Po­lice of­fi­cers re­cov­ered nine knives and one icepick dur­ing an an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in San Fer­nan­do for the J’ou­vert cel­e­bra­tions on Car­ni­val Mon­day,.

The ex­er­cise ran from 8.30 am to 12 noon and was co­or­di­nat­ed by ACP Wayne Mys­tar and in­clud­ed Cpl Hug­gins and oth­er mem­bers of the San Fer­nan­do Op­er­a­tions and En­quiries Unit.

Of­fi­cers stopped and searched sev­er­al peo­ple car­ry­ing one-strap shoul­der bags dur­ing the ex­er­cise.

Among those ar­rest­ed was a well-known 42-year-old firearm and rob­bery of­fend­er, who was charged with pos­ses­sion of a weapon; re­sist­ing ar­rest and pos­ses­sion of 112 grams of mar­i­jua­na.

In an un­re­lat­ed in­ci­dent at 9.30 am on Mon­day in Ch­agua­nas, a mem­ber of the T&T Reg­i­ment (TTR) was re­port­ed­ly ar­rest­ed by of­fi­cers fol­low­ing an al­ter­ca­tion dur­ing which he al­leged­ly bit an of­fi­cer on the hand at La­m­ont Street, En­ter­prise.

Mem­bers of the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Gang Unit were re­port­ed­ly on Car­ni­val du­ty along Ram­saran Street, Ch­agua­nas, when they at­tempt­ed to search a group of men.

The Lance Cor­po­ral was re­port­ed to be among the group and pushed one of the of­fi­cers and said, “Move from by f---ing me, doh dis­re­spect my gyul.”

He al­so al­leged­ly at­tempt­ed to hit an­oth­er of­fi­cer.

As of­fi­cers strug­gled to sub­due the sus­pect and called for back­up, the sol­dier al­leged­ly bit one of the of­fi­cers on his fin­gers.

Five of­fi­cers and the sus­pect were lat­er treat­ed at the Ch­agua­nas Health Fa­cil­i­ty for mi­nor in­juries.

Mean­while, one man had to be treat­ed at hos­pi­tal fol­low­ing a shoot­ing in Port-of-Spain, while a sec­ond man nar­row­ly es­caped be­ing shot af­ter jump­ing in a drain yes­ter­day.

In the first in­ci­dent at 12.14 am, a 30-year-old man of Cal­vary Hill, East Dry Riv­er, Port-of-Spain, was shot whilst walk­ing along Pic­cadil­ly Street.

The vic­tim told po­lice he was walk­ing west when up­on reach­ing the Man­go Rose hous­ing scheme, he heard gun­shots and be­gan run­ning. Re­al­is­ing he had been shot in the right in­dex fin­ger, the vic­tim al­leged­ly ran to the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where he was treat­ed and dis­charged.

In the sec­ond in­ci­dent at 11.30 am, a 33-year-old man, of Hard­ing Place, Co­corite, was walk­ing north along Wa­ter­hole Road when he met and had an ar­gu­ment with a man known to him.

It is al­leged the sus­pect walked be­hind Build­ing 4 whilst the vic­tim con­tin­ued walk­ing along. How­ev­er, the sus­pect re­port­ed­ly re­turned with a gun, which he point­ed at the vic­tim and opened fire. The vic­tim be­gan to run and jumped in­to a drain to es­cape the gun­man, who lat­er dis­ap­peared.