Chester Sam­bra­no

Three peo­ple have been ar­rest­ed, as of­fi­cers seized firearms, am­mu­ni­tion and il­le­gal nar­cotics dur­ing op­er­a­tions con­duct­ed over the past 48 hours.

The TTPS said be­tween 10 p.m. on Oc­to­ber 18 and 2 a.m. on Oc­to­ber 19, 2024, an an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in San­ta Cruz and San Juan re­sult­ed in mul­ti­ple ar­rests. A search war­rant ex­e­cut­ed at a res­i­dence lo­cat­ed at Prov­i­dence Gar­dens, Can­taro Vil­lage, Up­per San­ta Cruz re­port­ed­ly un­cov­ered a firearm with a mag­a­zine and 15 rounds of 9-mm am­mu­ni­tion, along with 178.60 grams of cannabis.

Two sus­pects were ar­rest­ed. Ad­di­tion­al­ly, a man of Febeau Vil­lage, Laven­tille Road was ar­rest­ed for the of­fence of rob­bery with vi­o­lence in the San Juan sta­tion dis­trict which oc­curred on 5th Oc­to­ber, 2024. 

The op­er­a­tion was spear­head­ed by Ag/Snr. Supt. Ed­wards Ag/Supt. Birch, Ag/ASP Cal­len­der, co­or­di­nat­ed by In­sp High­ly and W/Ag/In­sp Cum­ming-Clarke, su­per­vised by Sgt Mur­ray and W/Cpl George and in­clud­ed mem­bers of the San­ta Cruz Po­lice Sta­tion, San­ta Cruz CID, San Juan Po­lice Sta­tion, San Juan CID and the K-9 Unit.

Al­so, in the North­ern Di­vi­sion, be­tween 8 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. on Fri­day 18th Oc­to­ber 2024, an in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion in Ari­ma, co­or­di­nat­ed by ACP Singh and se­nior of­fi­cers re­sult­ed in the dis­cov­ery of a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion. 

The TTPS said act­ing on cred­i­ble in­for­ma­tion, of­fi­cers pro­ceed­ed to an aban­doned pool house on Aripo Road. There, un­der a ce­ment bag in a shed, PC De­mat­tas found a black re­volver and four rounds of .38 am­mu­ni­tion. The items were seized, and en­quiries are on­go­ing. 

The op­er­a­tion was co­or­di­nat­ed by ACP Singh, W/Snr Supt May­nard-Wil­son, Supt Guell­mo, ASP Pitt, ASP De­mat­tos and In­sp Lewis, su­per­vised by W/Sgt Ra­mai to­geth­er with mem­bers of the Ari­ma Op­er­a­tions/In­tel­li­gence Team.