Po­lice ar­rest­ed sev­en peo­ple and seized three guns, along with am­mu­ni­tion and il­le­gal drugs, dur­ing op­er­a­tions in sev­er­al ar­eas over the week­end.

Ac­cord­ing to a re­lease from the TTOS is­sued yes­ter­day, in the East­ern Di­vi­sion, of­fi­cers from the San­gre Grande Po­lice Sta­tion car­ried out an ex­er­cise be­tween 3 pm and 6 pm on Sun­day. They ar­rest­ed a 40-year-old man af­ter find­ing a home­made shot­gun and two 12-gauge car­tridges in his ve­hi­cle.

In the South­ern Di­vi­sion, po­lice con­duct­ed an ex­er­cise be­tween 11 am and 5 pm in the La Ro­main area. They ar­rest­ed five sus­pects for var­i­ous of­fences, in­clud­ing pos­ses­sion of cannabis and co­caine. Of­fi­cers al­so searched Man­jack Street in Vista­bel­la, where they found a re­volver wrapped in a grey plas­tic bag.

In the Port-of-Spain dis­trict, of­fi­cers searched the Sea Lots area and found a firearm and 20 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion hid­den in a wood­en struc­ture off Pro­duc­tion Av­enue.