To­ba­go po­lice seized an AR-15 ri­fle, am­mu­ni­tion, drugs, and sus­pect­ed stolen items dur­ing a raid in Les Coteaux yes­ter­day, as they in­ten­si­fied ef­forts to crack down on ris­ing gun vi­o­lence on the is­land.

Re­ports said of­fi­cers from the To­ba­go Di­vi­sion­al Task Force, sup­port­ed by the In­ter-Agency Task Force, Guard and Emer­gency Branch, K9 Unit and De­fence Force, car­ried out search­es across the Mo­ri­ah dis­trict be­tween 4 and 8 am.

They found the high-pow­ered ri­fle with 20 rounds of 5.56 am­mu­ni­tion and a mag­a­zine out­side a di­lap­i­dat­ed struc­ture at Mt Zion Trace. In­side, po­lice dis­cov­ered a duf­fle bag with 11 pack­ets of mar­i­jua­na and sev­er­al house­hold items be­lieved to be stolen, in­clud­ing a 65” Sam­sung tele­vi­sion.

Dur­ing a sep­a­rate search at Wig­gles Worth Dri­ve, of­fi­cers re­cov­ered a Glock mag­a­zine loaded with two rounds of 9mm am­mu­ni­tion. Po­lice made no ar­rests.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.

Gun vi­o­lence on the is­land has wors­ened in re­cent years. To­ba­go record­ed 26 mur­ders in 2024—with over 80 per­cent in­volv­ing firearms.

Po­lice have al­so re­cov­ered over 75 il­le­gal firearms in To­ba­go in the last decade, with as­sault ri­fles ap­pear­ing more fre­quent­ly in re­cent op­er­a­tions.