17-year-old held with gun in Cunupia

According to police reports at about 11.30 am on Sunday, police officers on patrol at Chin Chin Road, Cunupia observed the teenager and a 13-year-old boy walking along the roadway. Investigators said that on seeing the police vehicle, the teenagers began walking in the opposite direction.

The officers exited the vehicle and stopped and searched the teenagers.

A Taurus gun and five rounds of .38 ammunition were found in the 17-year-old’s possession.

Police said nothing illegal was found on the 13-year-old. The boys were detained and taken to the Cunupia Police Station where the younger one was released into the care of his parents. The other was later charged by PCs Elcock and Wickham.

In a separate incident, police officers arrested a man in connection with several shooting incidents in the Enterprise area. The man was detained during an exercise co-ordinated by Snr Supt McIntyre and led by ASP Smith on Friday.

In another incident in the Southern Division, two men were detained for possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking. Insp Don Gajadhar, PC Rampersad and a team of officers were on an exercise when they stopped a white Toyota Axio near Gulf View Drive, La Romaine on Friday. The vehicle was searched and 14.5 grammes of cocaine was found.

The men, ages 32 and 37, were arrested and later charged. Hours later in San Fernando, two other men, ages 37 and 42, were held for possession of 30.4 grammes of marijuana. This exercise was co-ordinated by ASP Mohammed and other police officers of the San Fernando Criminal Investigations Department.