Derek Achong

A San Juan man sus­pect­ed of man­u­fac­tur­ing home-made firearms was held by po­lice on Thurs­day. The man was ar­rest­ed at his home on Saw Mill Av­enue, San Juan home, by of­fi­cers from the North East­ern Di­vi­sion Rob­bery Squad. On Thurs­day af­ter­noon, the law­men searched the man's home and seized a home-made 9mm pis­tol.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said they al­so found sev­er­al heavy pow­er tools which they be­lieve were used to man­u­fac­ture il­le­gal weapons. The man, who is well known to po­lice, is said to have sev­er­al pend­ing mat­ters in court for firearm-re­lat­ed of­fences. He is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a Port-of-Spain mag­is­trate on Mon­day. The same group of of­fi­cers searched a used car deal­er­ship in Tu­na­puna and re­cov­ered a Glock pis­tol and sev­er­al rounds of am­mu­ni­tion from a car.

Fur­ther in­ves­ti­ga­tions re­vealed that the car had been re­pos­sessed from its own­er a month ago and was tak­en to the deal­er­ship to be sold. Both firearms were tak­en to the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre in St James where bal­lis­tic test­ing will be done to de­ter­mine if they were used re­cent­ly. The ex­er­cise was co-or­di­nat­ed by Supt John Daniel and in­clud­ed Sgt Ma­haraj, Cpl Tay­lor and PCs Clarke and Sci­pio.