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Sunday, March 2, 2025

11 held, four firearms seized in exercises

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29 days ago
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Eleven per­sons were ar­rest­ed and four firearms and quan­ti­ties of am­mu­ni­tion and nar­cotics were seized by of­fi­cers dur­ing on­go­ing an­ti­crime ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed in the To­ba­go, South­ern and West­ern Di­vi­sions.

In the first ex­er­cise, of­fi­cers con­duct­ed sev­er­al search­es on Thurs­day, which re­sult­ed in the seizure of one Tau­rus pis­tol and the ar­rest of three per­sons, ages 17 to 35, all of the area.

A 26-year-old man was held in con­nec­tion with a re­port of rob­bery with ag­gra­va­tion and wound­ing with In­tent and a 20-year-old farmer was held on rob­bery en­quiries.

Mean­while, in the South­ern Di­vi­sion, four sus­pects, all of the Pleas­antville dis­trict, were ar­rest­ed when a firearm and quan­ti­ties of am­mu­ni­tion, cannabis and co­caine were found hid­den in their home.

The sus­pects, ages 22 to 46, are ex­pect­ed to be charged with pos­ses­sion of firearm, pos­ses­sion of cannabis and pos­ses­sion of co­caine for the pur­pose of traf­fick­ing.

A Mara­bel­la man was al­so ar­rest­ed dur­ing the ex­er­cise for pos­ses­sion of cannabis.

In the West­ern Di­vi­sion, Task Force of­fi­cers con­duct­ed an ex­er­cise on Thurs­day dur­ing which they pro­ceed­ed to the Care­nage dis­trict and con­duct­ed a search.

The search re­sult­ed in the dis­cov­ery of one pis­tol loaded with a firearm con­tain­ing nine rounds of am­mu­ni­tion.

In a sim­i­lar ex­er­cise, this time in the Diego Mar­tin dis­trict, a 23-year-old man was ar­rest­ed for pos­ses­sion of quan­ti­ties of cannabis and co­caine, while of­fi­cers con­duct­ed a search of a forest­ed area, where they found 23 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion and a quan­ti­ty of cannabis. 


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