A 39-year old man was ar­rest­ed af­ter a quan­ti­ty of am­mu­ni­tion and a firearm were found dur­ing an op­er­a­tion in Laven­tille this morn­ing.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, based on in­for­ma­tion re­ceived, of­fi­cers of the Port of Spain Di­vi­sion Task Force and the K9 Unit con­duct­ed sev­er­al search­es in Port of Spain. Dur­ing one of the search­es, 15 rounds of nine-mil­lime­tre am­mu­ni­tion were found at a res­i­dence at Old St Joseph Road, Laven­tille.  A 39-year old­er man was ar­rest­ed.

As the ex­er­cise con­tin­ued, the of­fi­cers pro­ceed­ed to an aban­doned house along Williams Street, Laven­tille. It was al­leged that a pri­or­i­ty of­fend­er se­cured a firearm. K9 ‘Hi­fy’ alert­ed the of­fi­cers to a par­tic­u­lar area of the build­ing. The of­fi­cers used a sledge-ham­mer to re­move the con­crete.

One colt 45c pis­tol con­tain­ing sev­en rounds 40 cal­i­bre am­mu­ni­tion was found and seized, along with four rounds of am­mu­ni­tion which were found in a plas­tic con­tain­er. The ex­er­cise was co­or­di­nat­ed by ACP Yusuff Gaf­far, Snr Supt Ter­rance Nobbee, spear­head­ed by ASP Cum­ber­batch and Ag/In­sp Knott, and su­per­vised by Sgt Alexan­der, Cpls Sookhoo, Hug­gins and W/Cpl Fer­nan­do. In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing