Dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in the Mara­cas area, po­lice of­fi­cers ex­e­cut­ed a search war­rant at a house on Old Bay Road, Mara­cas, where they found two firearms. De­tails fol­low in this press re­lease from the TTPS:

One man was ar­rest­ed, two firearms, am­mu­ni­tion and a quan­ti­ty of mar­i­jua­na were seized dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise, which was con­duct­ed in the Mara­cas Bay dis­trict on Sun­day 10th Oc­to­ber, 2021.

Dur­ing the ex­er­cise a search war­rant was ex­e­cut­ed for firearms and am­mu­ni­tion at a house lo­cat­ed at Old Bay Road, Mara­cas Bay. When of­fi­cers searched the premis­es they found one Berret­ta pis­tol with 14 rounds of nine mil­lime­tre am­mu­ni­tion and one Tau­rus pis­tol with 11 rounds of nine mil­lime­tre am­mu­ni­tion. The of­fi­cers took pos­ses­sion of the firearms and am­mu­ni­tion and a 48-year-old man was ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with this seizure.

A search was al­so con­duct­ed in a bushy area off Old Bay Road, Mara­cas Bay, where a blue and white plas­tic bag con­tain­ing 80 grammes of mar­i­jua­na was found and seized. PC Voisin is con­tin­u­ing en­quiries.

The ex­er­cise was spear­head­ed by ACP Sama­roo, Ag/Snr Supt Win­ston Ma­haraj, Ag/Supt Ramjohn, ASP Pa­ri­man, co­or­di­nat­ed by In­sp Bharath, su­per­vised by Ag/Cpl Singh and in­clud­ed mem­bers of NED Coastal Pa­trol Unit and Mara­cas Bay Po­lice Sta­tion.