The Po­lice Ser­vice’s con­tin­ued crack­down on il­le­gal weapons has led to the ar­rest of three peo­ple and seizure of three firearms, along with quan­ti­ties of am­mu­ni­tion, dur­ing an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions yes­ter­day in the South­ern Di­vi­sion.

The Po­lice Ser­vice re­ports that at ap­prox­i­mate­ly 9:10 pm on No­vem­ber 5, 2024, South­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force of­fi­cers were on ex­er­cise along the San Fer­nan­do By-Pass when they ob­served a speed­ing ve­hi­cle, which they sig­nalled for it to stop.

Up­on con­duct­ing a search of the ve­hi­cle and the dri­ver, they dis­cov­ered a brown re­volver and two rounds of .38-mil­lime­tre am­mu­ni­tion in his shoul­der bag. The items were seized, and the 28-year-old dri­ver, said to be from 6th Com­pa­ny Cir­cu­lar Road in In­di­an Walk, was ar­rest­ed.

Ear­li­er on Tues­day, of­fi­cers from the La Ro­main Po­lice Post were on pa­trol along Hec­tor Street, La Ro­maine, when they spot­ted a man want­ed in con­nec­tion with a se­ries of rob­beries and shoot­ings in the area.

Up­on see­ing the of­fi­cers, the 26-year-old man turned and walked quick­ly to­wards his premis­es. When the of­fi­cers called out to him, he tossed a bag in­to an open lawn area.

The of­fi­cers re­trieved the bag, which con­tained 156 grammes of cannabis, and up­on search­ing the sus­pect, found a re­volver with two rounds of .38-mil­lime­tre am­mu­ni­tion. The firearm and the nar­cotics were seized.

The sus­pect, from Hec­tor Street, La Ro­main, was ar­rest­ed and con­veyed to the San Fer­nan­do Po­lice Sta­tion.

And in a sep­a­rate op­er­a­tion, po­lice of­fi­cers en­coun­tered a sus­pect walk­ing along Hec­tor Street, La Ro­main. Up­on look­ing in the di­rec­tion of the of­fi­cers, he quick­ened his pace and at­tempt­ed to en­ter the gate of a house, which aroused their sus­pi­cion.

The of­fi­cers ap­proached the man and con­duct­ed a search of his per­son, dur­ing which they found a Beretta .380 pis­tol with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing one round of .380-mil­lime­tre am­mu­ni­tion.

The items were seized, and the 28-year-old man from Hec­tor Street in La Ro­main, was ar­rest­ed and tak­en to the San Fer­nan­do Po­lice Sta­tion.

En­quiries are on­go­ing.