Police seize guns, ammo, drugs

The Police Service, in statements to the media yesterday, said the exercises were conducted between Tuesday and yesterday.

Police also found firearms and ammunition. A 30-year-old man was arrested during one of the raids.

Police officers from the Moruga police station found and seized a pump action shotgun and 3.86 kilogrammes of marijuana with an estimated street value of $38,600.

They were on patrol when they went to a camp in a forested area off Shorty Street, Bois Jean Jean, Moruga. As they arrived they saw three men running away.

When police searched the camp, they found a 12-gauge shotgun and the marijuana.

Two guns, ammunition and 15 grammes of marijuana were found in Blanchisseuse and Morvant by members of the North Eastern Division Task Force on Tuesday.

Acting on information, the police went to a forested area off Paria Main Road, Blanchisseuse where they found 15 kilogrammes of marijuana.

Then they went to Nine Storeys, Almond Drive Morvant, where they found a .38 revolver, a .9mm pistol, four rounds of ammunition, 1.4 kilogrammes of marijuana and 11 grammes of cocaine with an estimated street value of $ 16,500.

In Diego Martin on Tuesday, they found 62.4 grammes of marijuana while searching abandoned houses on Sparrow Drive and Simeon Road. In Maraval between 8 pm on Tuesday and 1 am yesterday, a search warrant was executed at the home of a 30-year-old man. Some 32 grammes of marijuana was found.

The man was arrested and charged and was expected to appear before a Port of Spain magistrate yesterday.