Businesswoman, daughter held for gun and ammo

OFFICERS of the Woodbrook Police Station yesterday arrested a 60-year-old businesswoman and her 21-year-old daughter after they were allegedly held with an illegal shotgun and 25 rounds of ammunition.

The woman and her daughter are to be charged with illegal possession of the shotgun and ammunition and are due to appear before a Port-of-Spain Magistrate tomorrow. Police said they had the Tragarete Road, Port-of-Spain, house under surveillance for sometime and officers, under Sgt Valentine Millette, acting Sgt Stephen Grant and PC Sharpe, decided to move in on the house around 2pm yesterday. Lawmen said the officers obtained a search warrant, which they subsequently executed.  The items were reportedly found and the two women held. A third person fled the scene and a warrant has since been obtained for his arrest. Police said the two women told them that the illegal fiream and ammunition belonged to the person who escaped. Close to where the arrests of the women took place, police said the same officers held a man with a quantity of marijuana.