CHESTER SAM­BRA­NO

Three cel­lu­lar phones were seized from the Port of Spain Prison and five firearms were found by of­fi­cers dur­ing on­go­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed across mul­ti­ple di­vi­sions be­tween yes­ter­day and ear­ly this morn­ing.

Po­lice say in the lat­est ex­er­cise, an “Op­er­a­tion Grand­slam” ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in the North East­ern Di­vi­sion be­tween 2 am and 6 am this morn­ing in the Mor­vant dis­trict, re­sult­ed in the seizure of one re­volver loaded with one round of am­mu­ni­tion along with 13 rounds of 5.56 am­mu­ni­tion and a quan­ti­ty of mar­i­jua­na.

Ac­cord­ing to the TTPS, the same par­ty of of­fi­cers, act­ing on in­for­ma­tion, then pro­ceed­ed to the Port of Spain Prison Re­mand Sec­tion, and with the as­sis­tance of the Prison Ser­vice Emer­gency Re­sponse Unit, con­duct­ed a search of a prison cell.

Of­fi­cers say the search re­sult­ed in of­fi­cers find­ing three cel­lu­lar phones.

A sim­i­lar search at the Gold­en Grove Prison, Arou­ca, led to the seizure of one cell phone charg­er ca­ble be­ing seized from the cell of a pris­on­er.

Mean­while, the Po­lice Ser­vice says of­fi­cers of the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Gang Unit pro­ceed­ed to the South­ern Di­vi­sion dur­ing the pe­ri­od 4 pm to 6:30 pm yes­ter­day, where they searched a chick­en coop in the Rousil­lac dis­trict.

There, the of­fi­cers found one re­volver, one shot­gun and six car­tridges.

Al­so in the Princes Town dis­trict, on Tues­day, of­fi­cers ex­e­cut­ed a search war­rant at the Loth­i­an’s Road home of a 35-year-old man.

The search al­leged­ly re­sult­ed in of­fi­cers find­ing sev­er­al firearm parts and com­po­nents in­clud­ing five rounds of am­mu­ni­tion.

The sus­pect, who was in the house at the time of the search, was ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the find.

The TTPS adds that in the Port of Spain Di­vi­sion, a Joint Agency An­ti-Crime Op­er­a­tion was con­duct­ed in the Mor­vant and Laven­tille dis­tricts be­tween 9 am and 5 pm yes­ter­day.

Dur­ing the op­er­a­tion, of­fi­cers re­port­ed­ly found one pis­tol loaded with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing 14 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion.

One sil­ver wag­on ve­hi­cle, which was re­port­ed stolen from the Ari­ma dis­trict on Mon­day, al­so was re­cov­ered dur­ing the op­er­a­tion.