Four peo­ple were ar­rest­ed while two firearms, am­mu­ni­tion, and mar­i­jua­na trees were seized dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise car­ried out in the North East­ern Di­vi­sion on Wednes­day.

Po­lice said the in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion was con­duct­ed be­tween 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. in the Barataria dis­trict by of­fi­cers at­tached to sev­er­al spe­cialised units.

Dur­ing the ex­er­cise, of­fi­cers went to Sawmill Av­enue, where they ar­rest­ed a 20-year-old man for pos­ses­sion of a Glock 19 pis­tol and two mag­a­zines con­tain­ing a to­tal of 25 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said fur­ther search­es in the same dis­trict led of­fi­cers to an aban­doned area where they dis­cov­ered and de­stroyed 30 ful­ly grown mar­i­jua­na trees.

Po­lice al­so ar­rest­ed three men, ages 23 to 26, all of Mor­vant, in con­nec­tion with the seizure of a Beretta pis­tol and a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing 15 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice said in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the mat­ters are con­tin­u­ing.

The op­er­a­tion was spear­head­ed by W/Snr Supt Guy-Al­leyne, Supt Birch, and ASP Ali and in­volved of­fi­cers from the Mor­vant Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment and Po­lice Sta­tion, the North East­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force, the North East­ern Di­vi­sion Gang In­tel­li­gence Unit, Air Sup­port Unit, and the Coastal and Ma­rine Unit.

The lat­est ex­er­cise forms part of on­go­ing ef­forts by po­lice to tar­get il­le­gal firearms, gang-re­lat­ed ac­tiv­i­ties, and nar­cotics traf­fick­ing across com­mu­ni­ties with­in the di­vi­sion.

Po­lice have re­peat­ed­ly warned that in­tel­li­gence-dri­ven op­er­a­tions will con­tin­ue in crime hotspots as law en­force­ment of­fi­cers in­ten­si­fy ef­forts to re­move il­le­gal weapons and drugs from the streets.

Any­one with in­for­ma­tion re­lat­ed to il­le­gal firearms, nar­cotics, or oth­er crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty is urged to con­tact the po­lice or share in­for­ma­tion anony­mous­ly through of­fi­cial crime-re­port­ing chan­nels.