Chester Sam­bra­no

The TTPS says over the past 72 hours, po­lice in­ten­si­fied op­er­a­tions across mul­ti­ple di­vi­sions, lead­ing to the seizure of five il­le­gal firearms and a sub­stan­tial haul of il­le­gal nar­cotics. 

In a me­dia re­lease, the TTPS said these strate­gic, in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tions al­so re­sult­ed in the ar­rest of five sus­pects, and in­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing in­to these mat­ters. 

In the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion of­fi­cers dis­cov­ered a black Mac-10 firearm with 11 rounds of 9mm am­mu­ni­tion while re­spond­ing to a re­port of an armed sus­pect near an aban­doned build­ing on Flem­ming Street, Long­denville.

In the West­ern Di­vi­sion WDG­IU of­fi­cers ex­e­cut­ing a search war­rant at Luck­put Street re­port­ed­ly found a loaded black pis­tol, eight pack­ets of co­caine (231.5 grams), and 80 pack­ets of cannabis (298 grams). 

A 40-year-old man and a 45-year-old woman were ar­rest­ed. 

The TTPS said in the North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion of­fi­cers con­duct­ing a rov­ing op­er­a­tion al­leged­ly dis­cov­ered a black re­volver with six rounds of .38 am­mu­ni­tion in a Hyundai Ma­trix. 

A 35- year-old Ch­agua­nas man was ar­rest­ed on mul­ti­ple charges. 

Al­so in the To­ba­go Di­vi­sion dur­ing a drug block op­er­a­tion in the Back Hill Whim dis­trict of­fi­cers found a .25 cal­i­bre firearm and one mag­a­zine in a bushy area. The firearm was tak­en to the Scar­bor­ough Po­lice Sta­tion.

Mean­while in the North­ern Di­vi­sion, act­ing on a tip, of­fi­cers found a shot­gun wrapped in blue trousers in­side a rusty bar­rel in a forest­ed area near the Are­na Dam. The firearm was tak­en to the Ari­ma Po­lice Sta­tion.

In the Port of Spain Di­vi­sion PC Leza­ma re­port­ed­ly dis­cov­ered cannabis in a blue Nis­san Almera dur­ing a mo­bile pa­trol along Main Street, Beetham Gar­dens and ar­rest­ed the dri­ver, who was tak­en to Besson Street Po­lice Sta­tion for fur­ther in­ves­ti­ga­tion. 

Fi­nal­ly, in the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion, of­fi­cers stopped a white Nis­san NV200 ve­hi­cle along the Ca­paro Val­ley Bras­so Road and al­leged­ly found 435 grams of cannabis. Both male oc­cu­pants were ar­rest­ed and charged.