A sub-ma­chine gun was among two firearms and quan­ti­ties of am­mu­ni­tion and nar­cotics seized by of­fi­cers dur­ing on­go­ing an­ti- crime ex­er­cis­es in the North East­ern and North­ern Di­vi­sions overnight.

The TTPS said in the first ex­er­cise, of­fi­cers of the North East­ern Di­vi­sion Gang and In­tel­li­gence Unit, Barataria Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment and Ca­nine Branch pro­ceed­ed to the Mor­vant dis­trict be­tween 4 pm and 7 pm, on Tues­day 12th Sep­tem­ber, 2023. Dur­ing the ex­er­cise, a bushy area was searched which re­sult­ed in one sub-ma­chine gun loaded with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing eleven rounds of am­mu­ni­tion and a quan­ti­ty of mar­i­jua­na be­ing dis­cov­ered.

Mean­while in the North­ern Di­vi­sion, of­fi­cers of the Ari­ma Po­lice Sta­tion con­duct­ed an ex­er­cise be­tween 7 pm and 10 pm, yes­ter­day, dur­ing which of­fi­cers ar­rest­ed a 26-year-old man of Sher­wood Park. He was re­port­ed­ly found to be in pos­ses­sion of one firearm loaded with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing eleven rounds of am­mu­ni­tion. And, in the East­ern Di­vi­sion, of­fi­cers ar­rest­ed a 20-year-old San­gre Grande man in con­nec­tion with a re­port of Wound­ing which oc­curred on Fri­day 8th Sep­tem­ber, 2023.

The sus­pect is ex­pect­ed to face charges of Wound­ing with In­tent, Pos­ses­sion of Firearm, Pos­ses­sion of Am­mu­ni­tion, Pos­ses­sion of Firearm to En­dan­ger Life, Pos­ses­sion of Am­mu­ni­tion to En­dan­ger Life and Dis­charg­ing a Firearm with­in 40 me­ters of a road­way. In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing in­to all the mat­ters.