Resh­ma Ra­goonath

South­ern Di­vi­sion of­fi­cers seized an Ital­ian-made sub-ma­chine gun, a shot­gun and sniper cam­ou­flage cloth­ing from a for­mer sol­dier over the week­end. The 39-year-old sus­pect, of Di­a­mond Vil­lage, Clax­ton Bay, who is al­so a scrap met­al deal­er, was among 53 peo­ple ar­rest­ed dur­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es in the South­ern Di­vi­sion. Of­fi­cers from the San Fer­nan­do Task­force and Crime Sup­pres­sion Unit, co­or­di­nat­ed by Se­nior Supt De­o­dath Du­lalchan and spear­head­ed by ASP Zamsheed Mo­hammed, In­sp Ho­sein, Cpls Davis Lewis and An­tho­ny Wolffe, raid­ed a house in Clax­ton Bay.

The of­fi­cers, to­geth­er with Lieu­tenant Wright and his pla­toon, searched the house and found an Ital­ian-made Tau­rus sub-ma­chine gun with sniper tri­pod, an am­mu­ni­tion can­is­ter, ri­fle sling, sniper jack­et and cam­ou­flage cloth­ing. A Rem­ing­ton 12-gauge shot­gun and four mo­bile phones were al­so seized dur­ing the raids. Of­fi­cers al­so con­duct­ed search­es in Pleas­antville and ar­rest­ed a teen for pos­ses­sion of a 9mm Tau­rus pis­tol and eight rounds of am­mu­ni­tion at around 11.45 am on Sat­ur­day.

Po­lice of­fi­cers were on mo­bile pa­trol in Or­chard Gar­dens when WPC Subero be­came sus­pi­cious of a teenag­er who was stand­ing at the side of the road. The of­fi­cers searched the teen and found a sil­ver Luger 9mm pis­tol with eight rounds in his pants waist. On Sat­ur­day at around 11.30 am of­fi­cers re­ceived in­for­ma­tion that led them to Har­ris Street, San Fer­nan­do, where they found a blood­ied gun butt in an area near St Paul's An­gli­can Pri­ma­ry School. The wood­en gun butt was wrapped in news­pa­pers. PC Richard Kishore is con­tin­u­ing in­quiries.