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Monday, May 5, 2025

Boy, 14, arrested with loaded gun in Penal

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Sascha Wilson
20 days ago
20250414

Sascha Wil­son

A 14-year-old boy was ar­rest­ed on Sun­day af­ter of­fi­cers dis­cov­ered a loaded firearm in his pos­ses­sion dur­ing an ear­ly morn­ing raid at a house along Pe­nal Rock Road.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, of­fi­cers of the South West­ern Di­vi­sion ex­e­cut­ed the raid around 6:11 a.m. Up­on ar­rival, they found the house un­oc­cu­pied by its own­er. How­ev­er, dur­ing a search of the up­per floor, they en­coun­tered a teenage boy ly­ing in a ham­mock.

When ques­tioned, the teen claimed he was the care­tak­er of ducks on the com­pound. Of­fi­cers ob­served a brown pouch strapped across his shoul­der, which al­leged­ly con­tained a black and sil­ver Sig Sauer pis­tol along with a mag­a­zine loaded with three rounds of 9mm am­mu­ni­tion.

The boy was ar­rest­ed, cau­tioned un­der the Chil­dren’s Judges Rules, and tak­en to the Oropouche Book­ing Cen­ter.

In a sep­a­rate ex­er­cise in the dis­trict, of­fi­cers searched the home of a 27-year-old man. With as­sis­tance from the K-9 Unit, they re­port­ed­ly dis­cov­ered a black crate hid­den next to a co­conut plant. In­side, they found 22 rounds of 9mm am­mu­ni­tion and nine rounds of .40-cal­i­bre am­mu­ni­tion wrapped in a black and blue plas­tic bag.

The man was sub­se­quent­ly de­tained at the Pe­nal Po­lice Sta­tion.

In­sp John, Sgt Khada­roo, WPC Pere­lion-Rowans, and PC Nel­son were among the of­fi­cers in­volved in the op­er­a­tion.


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