Po­lice ar­rest­ed nine peo­ple yes­ter­day—in­clud­ing five Venezue­lan na­tion­als in the coun­try il­le­gal­ly—and seized a pis­tol along with quan­ti­ties of am­mu­ni­tion.

Of­fi­cers con­duct­ed an ex­er­cise be­tween 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Thurs­day at an aban­doned struc­ture at East Dry Riv­er, Port-of-Spain. There, they dis­cov­ered a Beretta pis­tol wrapped in a pair of cam­ou­flage trousers, with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing 15 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion.

They al­so found a crate con­tain­ing 50 rounds of as­sort­ed am­mu­ni­tion and one mag­a­zine dur­ing the search.

In a sep­a­rate ex­er­cise on Wednes­day, of­fi­cers dis­cov­ered quan­ti­ties of am­mu­ni­tion, cannabis, and co­caine at the Dun­can and Nel­son Street Plan­nings.

They al­so re­cov­ered sev­er­al mo­bile phones be­lieved to be linked to mul­ti­ple re­ports of lar­ce­ny in the Port-of-Spain dis­trict.

In the South West­ern Di­vi­sion, of­fi­cers car­ried out an ex­er­cise be­tween 4 a.m. and 8 a.m. on Thurs­day. They searched a house at Ica­cos Vil­lage, Ce­dros, and de­tained five Venezue­lan na­tion­als—ages 21 to 48—who are in the coun­try il­le­gal­ly.

In the South­ern Di­vi­sion, of­fi­cers con­duct­ed an­oth­er ex­er­cise be­tween 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Thurs­day, which led to the ar­rest of four sus­pects. The men, aged 20 to 32, all of San Fer­nan­do, were held in con­nec­tion with re­ports of bur­glary and rob­bery with vi­o­lence.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to all mat­ters are on­go­ing.