A se­ries of an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es dur­ing the week­end have re­sult­ed in the ar­rest of 10 peo­ple, the seizure of an il­le­gal weapon and the de­struc­tion of sev­er­al mar­i­jua­na trees, the Po­lice Ser­vice has con­firmed.

In the first in­ci­dent, North-East­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force of­fi­cers car­ried out an ex­er­cise be­tween 2 pm and 6 pm, on Sat­ur­day (No­vem­ber 9, 2024), which fo­cussed pri­mar­i­ly on known drug blocks and aban­doned struc­tures in the San Juan and Mor­vant dis­tricts.

The TTPS says while at Sev­enth Av­enue in Mal­ick, of­fi­cers searched a bushy area, af­ter ob­serv­ing a man flee­ing the scene. The search re­sult­ed in the dis­cov­ery and seizure of one pis­tol loaded with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing four rounds of am­mu­ni­tion.

Mean­while, a drug erad­i­ca­tion ex­er­cise was con­duct­ed in Area North of the North­ern Di­vi­sion be­tween 7:30 am and 3 pm on Fri­day (No­vem­ber 8, 2024).

The joint op­er­a­tion in­clud­ed of­fi­cers of the Ari­ma Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment (CID), with as­sis­tance from the Ari­ma Op­er­a­tions and In­tel­li­gence Unit, the North­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force, the Ari­ma Po­lice Sta­tion, Na­tion­al Op­er­a­tions Task Force, the Spe­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tions Unit, the East­ern Di­vi­sion and the North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Task Force.

Dur­ing the joint op­er­a­tion, of­fi­cers ar­rest­ed three 17-year-old sus­pects, all of Va­len­cia, in con­nec­tion with a re­port of Rob­bery in the Aripo dis­trict.

The same par­ty of of­fi­cers then pro­ceed­ed to a forest­ed area, where they dis­cov­ered a mar­i­jua­na field with ap­prox­i­mate­ly 4,000 ful­ly grown trees, with an es­ti­mat­ed street val­ue of $2.4 mil­lion.

The field was sub­se­quent­ly de­stroyed.

Still on Fri­day, East­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force of­fi­cers, along with per­son­nel of the San­gre Grande CID and Ca­nine Branch, con­duct­ed an ex­er­cise be­tween 4 pm and 8 pm, which led to the ar­rest of four peo­ple of San­gre Grande for the pos­ses­sion of Cannabis—three men, ages 26 to 34 years and a 21-year-old woman.

Two men of North­east­ern Set­tle­ment were held for firearm re­lat­ed of­fences, while a 22-year-old sus­pect, al­so of the area was held rel­a­tive to sev­er­al shoot­ing of­fences.

And, in the West­ern Di­vi­sion on Sat­ur­day, Task Force of­fi­cers pro­ceed­ed three miles in­to a forest­ed area in the Pat­na Vil­lage dis­trict be­tween 10 am and 4:30 pm, where they found one bul­let­proof vest and 100 ful­ly grown mar­i­jua­na trees.

The trees were sub­se­quent­ly de­stroyed.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing.