Ak­ile Si­mon

?The grand­son of a promi­nent at­tor­ney is among sev­er­al peo­ple ar­rest­ed by po­lice dur­ing an ex­er­cise in the San­ta Cruz com­mu­ni­ty on Fri­day. The ex­er­cise be­gan around 8 am and end­ed short­ly af­ter 6 pm. It in­volved a team of of­fi­cers from San­ta Cruz CID and Rob­bery Squad and HPT of­fi­cers of Mor­vant Po­lice Sta­tion, led by Sgt Ma­haraj. The at­tor­ney's grand­son, po­lice said, was charged with re­sist­ing ar­rest and ob­scene lan­guage at La Pas­to­ra Vil­lage. Of­fi­cers said they were about to ar­rest an­oth­er man when the 18-year-old sus­pect be­gan to ver­bal­ly abuse the law­men. He is al­leged to have used ob­scene lan­guage. As of­fi­cers at­tempt­ed to ar­rest the sus­pect, they were forced to shoot a pit bull which at­tacked the law­men.

Short­ly af­ter­wards, po­lice stopped and searched two men who were seen emerg­ing from a forest­ed area, and al­leged­ly found a home-made shot­gun and two live rounds of am­mu­ni­tion in a knap­sack the men were car­ry­ing. At La Canoa, a man was held al­leged­ly with 120 pack­ets of mar­i­jua­na (ten piece). Three oth­er men were held in the San­ta Cruz area for mar­i­jua­na pos­ses­sion.

Po­lice held a 19-year-old man who was dri­ving an AD van with false num­ber plates at Sam Bou­caud. The chas­sis and en­gine num­bers of the ve­hi­cle were filed off and the sus­pect did not have a dri­ver's per­mit, of­fi­cers said. A 32-year-old de­por­tee was de­tained for house­break­ing, while a Can­taro res­i­dent, who al­leged­ly robbed a Pi­ar­co man of a $6,000 gold chain, was ar­rest­ed and the item re­cov­ered. The ex­er­cise was spear­head­ed by Sr Supt Theophilus Cum­ming, Supt Stephen Ram­sub­hag and act­ing ASP Ken­rick Ed­wards. (AS)