Two men were ar­rest­ed, and a firearm, am­mu­ni­tion, and a quan­ti­ty of nar­cotics were seized dur­ing a po­lice op­er­a­tion in the North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion on Feb­ru­ary 14, 2025.

In a state­ment the TTPS said the op­er­a­tion, con­duct­ed be­tween 10:30 a.m. and 3:00 p.m., in­volved of­fi­cers from the Tu­na­puna Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment, North Cen­tral Task Force East and West, and Tu­na­puna Court staff.

Dur­ing the ex­er­cise, of­fi­cers searched a 37-year-old man at Pool 1, Cau­ra Roy­al Road.

A sil­ver and black 9mm pis­tol with five rounds of 9mm am­mu­ni­tion was re­port­ed­ly found in his pos­ses­sion, lead­ing to his ar­rest.

A sec­ond sus­pect, a 33-year-old man, was al­so searched and found al­leged­ly in pos­ses­sion of:

• 7.83 grams of Ec­sta­sy

• 7.71 grams of Co­caine

• 9 pack­ets of Xanax (8.08 grams to­tal)

• 6.59 grams of Mol­ly

• An ad­di­tion­al 4.54 grams of Co­caine

Both men were tak­en in­to cus­tody. Fur­ther search­es at their res­i­dences re­port­ed­ly un­cov­ered ad­di­tion­al il­le­gal sub­stances, in­clud­ing:

• 50.9 grams of Ec­sta­sy

• 49.4 grams of Hashish

• 49.7 grams of Mol­ly

• 22.6 grams of Xanax

• A quan­ti­ty of cash and pack­ag­ing ma­te­ri­als.

The ex­er­cise was led by Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Michael Pierre and su­per­vised by Su­per­in­ten­dent Gift, ASP John, In­spec­tor Pierre, Sgt Pe­ters, and Cpl Grant.