Four per­sons were charged dur­ing sep­a­rate ex­er­cis­es in the South­ern Di­vi­sion yes­ter­day.
Shane Bhim, 28, of Debe, Al Ali, 29, of Di­a­mond Vil­lage, and Kas­raj Ram­rat­tan, 29, of Debe, were joint­ly charged for pos­ses­sion of a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion.

In a sep­a­rate in­ci­dent, Kelsey Grahthume, of Pleas­antville, was charged for pos­ses­sion of cannabis by PC Ra­mad­hin. All four are sched­uled to ap­pear vir­tu­al­ly at the San Fer­nan­do Mag­is­trates’ Court to­day.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, of­fi­cers on mo­bile pa­trol re­spond­ed to a re­port of loud ex­plo­sions along Samai Trace, Debe. They ob­served three men seat­ed on a bench in the area. The men fled up­on see­ing the po­lice but were ap­pre­hend­ed a short dis­tance away. A search was con­duct­ed where the men had been seat­ed and one .38 Smith and Wes­son re­volver with two rounds of .38spl am­mu­ni­tion was al­leged­ly found.

The men were ar­rest­ed and tak­en to the Mara­bel­la Po­lice Sta­tion. They were sub­se­quent­ly charged by WPC Renne. The ex­er­cise, which took place be­tween the hours of 3 pm and 9pm al­so tar­get­ed ar­eas known for il­le­gal drug ac­tiv­i­ty in the Debe, La Ro­main, and Pleas­antville dis­tricts. It was co­or­di­nat­ed by Snr Supt Yusuff Gaf­far, Supt Nobee, ASP Ali Mo­hammed, In­sp Teeluck and Sgt Joseph and su­per­vised by Cpl Ba­hadur.