Father and son held with home-made pistol

A LOCALLY manufactured .380 semi-automatic pistol was among a cache of arms and ammunition seized by Northern Division police who arrested a 50-year-old man and his teenaged son, during a raid on the suspects’ St Joseph home early yesterday morning.

The arrest of the duo and seizure of three firearms, bullets and gun-making tools have led police to believe they have smashed a major illegal gun enterprise. The raid on the St Joseph house followed weeks of surveillance by St Joseph police on orders of ACP (North) Nazamul Hosein and ASP Errol Dillon. Father and son are to be placed on a number of ID parades over the weekend and will appear before a Tunapuna Magistrate for possession of arms and ammunition.

At around 5 am officer led by Insp Michael Modeste went to a house at La Mango, St Joseph. The officers surrounded the house and woke up the 50-year-old man and his 19-year-old son. After executing a search warrant, the officers searched the premises and found a black homemade .380 semi-automatic pistol a .22 pistol a Hilti nail-gun modified into a nine-millimetre firearm 16 rounds of ammunition of various calibres four home-made pistol ammunition magazine clips and an assortment of springs, triggers and other parts for firearms.