A sol­dier was among three peo­ple ar­rest­ed dur­ing an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions in the north­ern polic­ing di­vi­sion and in To­ba­go on Mon­day.

Three firearms—in­clud­ing a loaded sub­ma­chine gun—and sev­er­al rounds of am­mu­ni­tion al­so were seized dur­ing the ex­er­cise.

The Po­lice Ser­vice re­ports that be­tween 6:45 pm on Mon­day (Ju­ly 7, 2025) and 3 am to­day, Tues­day (Ju­ly 8, 2025), an in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion was con­duct­ed in the Ari­ma dis­trict.

Ac­cord­ing to the TTPS, dur­ing the ex­er­cise, of­fi­cers from the Guard and Emer­gency Branch (GEB) and the In­ter-Agency Task Force (IATF) in­ter­cept­ed two ve­hi­cles—a Nis­san Wingroad and Nis­san Ti­i­da—while at Tumpuna Road.

When the ve­hi­cles were searched, the of­fi­cers dis­cov­ered a sub­ma­chine gun which was loaded with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing 22 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion and a pis­tol loaded with 11 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion.

Three male sus­pects, ages 25 to 27 years—in­clud­ing a 26-year-old sol­dier—were ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the weapon­ry seized.

The TTPS state­ment says of­fi­cers sus­pect­ed that the trio was on their way to com­mit a firearm-re­lat­ed of­fence when they were ar­rest­ed.

The ex­er­cise was spear­head­ed by ACP Col­lis Hazel, Snr. Supt. Mon­trichard and Snr. Supt. Spence.

Mean­while, GEB and IATF of­fi­cers on an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in To­ba­go found and seized one firearm.

That ex­er­cise was car­ried out be­tween 11 am and 1 pm on Mon­day.

The TTPS says in­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing in­to these above mat­ters.