A 16-year-old Santa Cruz boy is expected to be questioned in relation to a stolen car he was caught driving through Curepe early yesterday.
Police said officers from the St Joseph CID were on patrol along the Southern Main Road at 1 am when they saw a silver Nissan hatchback Tiida with a license plate matching that of a car that was reported stolen in St James hours earlier.
Police intercepted the car and found the minor.
Investigators said the car was rented by a 39-year-old woman who parked it near the Audrey Jeffers Highway at 10.23 pm on Monday.
The woman told officers that she walked a short distance away and had a conversation on the phone before returning to the area where she parked the car around 11 pm when she realised it was missing.
In an unrelated incident, two suspects were able to escape police officers but dropped a gun as they fled into a forested part of Santa Cruz on Monday afternoon.
Police said officers from the Emergency Response Patrol (ERP) Special Response Unit received a tip that men with a gun were near a riverbank and went to the scene.
As officers reached the area, they saw two men walking through a dirt track. On seeing the police, the men dropped a black plastic bag and ran through nearby bushes.
On checking the bag dropped by the men, the officers found a silver MAC 10 with a magazine containing a quantity of ammunition.
In another incident hours later, police visited Canada Plannings, Picton Road, Laventille, at 9.30 pm and found a Sebro Maverick 12-gauge shotgun, two 12-gauge cartridges and six grammes of cocaine hidden in a pink bedsheet.
These exercises were co-ordinated by ACP Tactical Support Collis Hazel as part of Operation BLAST (Bringing Land, Air and Sea Together).
Senior police said the ERP’s Special Response Unit was recently formed as a means of strengthening police response to crimes in different areas and also gather intelligence.
— Shane Superville