Cops seize trap guns, couple charged

Following his arrest the man told police officers that the guns were for his own use to carry out hunting.

According to reports, at about 1.30 pm on Wednesday, a party of officers led by Inspector Ken Lutchman and with Cpl Nanhoo, PCs Cortez, Baptiste, D’Abreau and St Clair and WPCs Clarke and Cupid, were on patrol along Foster Road, Sangre Grande when they observed the suspect walking out of Madhosingh Drive with a black bag on his shoulder.

The officers became suspicious and carried out a check of the bag where they found the four trap guns. The suspect was taken into custody and was expected to be charged yesterday with gun-related offences. In an unrelated matter, the same team of officers were on patrol along Plum Mitan Road, Plum Mitan when they saw a couple sitting in a parked vehicle at the side of the roadway. Officers confronted the couple and then began searching the vehicle.

They allegedly found 160 grammes of cocaine and ten grams of marijuana. The 41-year-old man and his 36-year-old wife were taken into custody.