A Va­len­cia man who went to Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions in Ari­ma armed with a gun was ar­rest­ed by po­lice on Mon­day.

North­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force of­fi­cers were on pa­trol when they saw the 23-year-old man act­ing sus­pi­cious­ly. Up­on search­ing him, the of­fi­cers found a Tan­foglio pis­tol with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing 10 rounds of 9mm am­mu­ni­tion.

In an­oth­er in­ci­dent, of­fi­cers of the North­ern Di­vi­sion Emer­gency Re­sponse Pa­trol ar­rest­ed two men and seized a Tec-9 se­mi-au­to­mat­ic pis­tol with a mag­a­zine and 13 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion in Gua­napo on Car­ni­val Mon­day.

Po­lice, act­ing on a tip-off, in­ter­cept­ed a white Nis­san Car­a­van along San Car­los Road. The men, a 23-year-old from Gua­napo and a 28-year-old from Mal­oney, were ar­rest­ed and tak­en to the Mal­oney Po­lice Sta­tion.

In Cou­va on Car­ni­val Mon­day, po­lice found a loaded gun hid­den be­hind a car’s front wheel. Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, of­fi­cers of the Cou­va Po­lice Sta­tion were search­ing along Cap­tain Wat­son Street, when they saw a black Hon­da City ve­hi­cle parked along the street. The of­fi­cers found a “Spe­cial” re­volver with six rounds of .38mm am­mu­ni­tion hid­den be­hind the ve­hi­cle’s front wheel. No one was ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the find.