Policewoman’s gun recovered

A RAID by St Joseph police on a house in Curepe, Thursday afternoon, led to the arrest of five persons including two teenaged girls, after a firearm belonging to a senior police woman, was recovered along with a quantity of ammunition.

The successful raid was coordinated by ACP (East) Nazamul Hosein and Snr Supt Lloyd Coutain, and came following weeks of surveillance work by the police. According to police reports, around 1 pm a team of officers led by Ag Insp Michael Modeste and including Sgt Don Lezama, Cpl Aldwin Collins and PC Nirmal Ramjattan raided the house in Curepe. They  held a 37-year-old man, his two daughters aged 14 and 16 and two men aged 38 and 26, inside the house. During a search of the house, the officers found an Italian made Baretta .380 semi-automatic pistol, two ammunition magazines and 14 live rounds of .380 ammo. The five were arrested and taken to the St Joseph’s Police Station where up to late Thursday evening, they were being questioned. A trace on the recovered firearm later revealed that it belonged to a female police officer whose home was broken into late last year. Supt Stephen Quashie is continuing investigations into the theft of the firearm while PC Nirmal Ramjattan of St Joseph CID is investigating Thursday’s arrest of the five persons, who are expected to be charged with possession of arms and ammunition.