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Thursday, June 5, 2025

Firearm seized in anti-crime operation in Morvant

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19 days ago
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Officers of the ABM Task Force were on mobile patrol along Diego Martin Main Road, this morning, when they spotted the suspects near the Starlite Shopping Plaza

Officers of the ABM Task Force were on mobile patrol along Diego Martin Main Road, this morning, when they spotted the suspects near the Starlite Shopping Plaza

GUARDIAN

A re­volver, sev­er­al rounds of am­mu­ni­tion, and a quan­ti­ty of cannabis were seized by of­fi­cers of the North East­ern Di­vi­sion dur­ing a fo­cused an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in the Mor­vant dis­trict on Fri­day, May 16, 2025.

Ac­cord­ing to a TTPS re­lease, the op­er­a­tion tar­get­ed high-risk ar­eas, in­clud­ing 2nd Cale­do­nia and Pitch Road. 

Of­fi­cers con­duct­ed tar­get­ed search­es of known drug blocks, aban­doned struc­tures, and bushy ar­eas with­in these lo­ca­tions.

As a re­sult of the search­es:

One (.38 Spe­cial) re­volver was found and seized in a bushy area along Pitch Road near the WASA Pump Sta­tion.

A black plas­tic bag dis­cov­ered in the low­er Pitch Road area near Co­conut Dri­ve con­tained:

Six (6) rounds of 5.56 mm am­mu­ni­tion

28 grams of plant cannabis

No ar­rests were made in con­nec­tion with the seizures. 

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing and are be­ing led by PC Prov­i­dence.


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