Nine high pow­ered guns are among 12 il­le­gals firearms seized by the po­lice with­in the last 24 hours.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) says the nine AR15 ri­fles along with a large quan­ti­ty of am­mu­ni­tion were found and seized by of­fi­cers of the POS Di­vi­sion dur­ing an an­ti­crime ex­er­cise in the Bel­mont dis­trict last night.

The TTPS said while con­duct­ing sev­er­al road checks last night, the team of of­fi­cers went to the St Fran­cois Val­ley Road Plan­nings area, where they con­duct­ed sev­er­al search­es and had cause to stop and search a Nis­san Almera, where they dis­cov­ered a quan­ti­ty of am­mu­ni­tion and two speak­er box­es.

It said up­on ex­am­in­ing the pow­ered speak­er box­es, of­fi­cers dis­cov­ered eight AR15 ri­fles unassem­bled along with 12 mag­a­zines hid­den in­side, dur­ing a sub­se­quent search of a Nis­san B15, an­oth­er AR15 ri­fle was found.

Nine peo­ple are now in po­lice cus­tody.

And in San­gre Grande last night one man was ar­rest­ed and a pis­tol and mag­a­zine seized by of­fi­cers of the East­ern Di­vi­sion Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Unit, dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise.

Dur­ing the ex­er­cise, of­fi­cers ex­e­cut­ed a search war­rant for firearms and am­mu­ni­tion at the North-East­ern Set­tle­ment home of a 42- year-old man. The search re­sult­ed in one Beretta pis­tol and a mag­a­zine be­ing dis­cov­ered in the house.

Mean­while, one firearm and a quan­ti­ty of am­mu­ni­tion were found by of­fi­cers of the San Juan Po­lice Sta­tion.

Re­ports in­di­cat­ed that on Sep­tem­ber 19 dur­ing a mo­bile pa­trol, along 1st Street San Juan at around 11.30 am, of­fi­cers of the San Juan Po­lice Sta­tion were stopped by a woman who said that her life was threat­ened.

The of­fi­cers, then ac­com­pa­nied the woman to the home of the sus­pect, how­ev­er, the sus­pect was not at home.

The vic­tim point­ed to a stove in the kitchen where she be­lieved the gun to be hid­den. The of­fi­cers made checks and found a pis­tol with sev­en rounds of am­mu­ni­tion.

The sus­pect was lat­er ar­rest­ed.

And in To­ba­go, a re­volver was dis­cov­ered by of­fi­cers of the Scar­bor­ough Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment, dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in the Sig­nal Hill dis­trict last night.

Of­fi­cers were on mo­bile pa­trol along Sig­nal Hill Main Road when they pro­ceed­ed to an emp­ty lot of land just off the road­way.

A search of the area was con­duct­ed, which re­sult­ed in of­fi­cers find­ing a mul­ti-col­ored bag con­tain­ing one Tau­rus re­volver.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing in­to all the finds.