Po­lice of­fi­cers from the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Re­sponse Team(SORT) have come up emp­ty-hand­ed af­ter con­clud­ing a two-hour po­lice ex­er­cise at Build­ing 17 in Mal­oney on Wednes­day.

Se­nior po­lice sources told Guardian Me­dia that the of­fi­cers, head­ed by Sgt Mark Her­nan­dez, went to the area short­ly be­fore 4 pm act­ing on in­for­ma­tion they had re­ceived in re­la­tion to spe­cif­ic in­di­vid­u­als want­ed in con­nec­tion for var­i­ous crimes.

SORT of­fi­cers, Guardian Me­dia was in­formed, searched four apart­ments for the men. The sus­pects are want­ed by the po­lice for ques­tion­ing in­to a string of shoot­ings and mur­ders over the last few weeks.

How­ev­er, af­ter a two-hour search in which they locked down the build­ing, the of­fi­cers were un­able to lo­cate the want­ed in­di­vid­u­als.