A 14-year-old boy was ar­rest­ed on Sun­day af­ter he was al­leged­ly found in pos­ses­sion of a loaded gun dur­ing an ear­ly morn­ing raid at a house in Pe­nal.

South West­ern Di­vi­sion of­fi­cers got to the house along Pe­nal Rock Road around 6.11 am, but the own­er was not there. 

On the up­per floor of the house, how­ev­er, they saw a young man ly­ing in a ham­mock.   When the of­fi­cers asked him what he was do­ing there, he said he was the care­tak­er of the ducks on the com­pound. 

Strapped across his shoul­der was a brown pouch and in­side the of­fi­cers al­leged­ly found a black and sil­ver Sig Sauer Pis­tol with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing three rounds of .9mm am­mu­ni­tion. 

The teen was im­me­di­ate­ly ar­rest­ed and cau­tioned un­der the Chil­dren's Judges Rules and de­tained at the Oropouche Book­ing Cen­tre. The of­fi­cers al­so searched an­oth­er home in the dis­trict be­long­ing to a 27-year-old man. With the as­sis­tance of the K-9 Unit, the of­fi­cers al­leged­ly found next to a co­conut plant a black crate con­tain­ing 22 rounds of 9mm am­mu­ni­tion and nine rounds of .40 am­mu­ni­tion wrapped in a black and blue plas­tic bag. 

The man was de­tained at the Pe­nal Po­lice Sta­tion. 

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