Casan­dra Thomp­son-Forbes

Po­lice re­cov­ered three firearms in two sep­a­rate lo­ca­tions fol­low­ing an ex­er­cise last week­end. A Trinidad man was ar­rest­ed and jailed in con­nec­tion with one of the seizures.

The ex­er­cise was co­or­di­nat­ed by Sr Supt Jef­fery George and spear­head­ed by Sgts Stew­art and Wil­son of the Di­vi­sion­al Task Force from 9 pm on Fri­day to 9 am Sat­ur­day.

Two .38 Spe­cial re­volvers, one 9mm pis­tol and five rounds of am­mu­ni­tion were found.

Richard Charles, of Princes Town, ap­peared in court on Tues­day charged with pos­ses­sion of a .38 re­volver and five rounds of am­mu­ni­tion found on him in the Crown Point area. He plead­ed guilty when he ap­peared be­fore Mag­is­trate Ce­de­no in the Scar­bor­ough Mag­is­trates Court. He was sen­tenced to four years for each of the of­fences, which will run con­cur­rent­ly.

Wpc Ed­wards of the Di­vi­sion­al Task Force laid the charges.

At a sep­a­rate lo­ca­tion, a .38 spe­cial re­volver and a 9mm pis­tol were found in a bushy area at Sig­nal Hill but no one was held in con­nec­tion with that find.

Ap­prox­i­mate­ly 100 grammes of mar­i­jua­na val­ued at $10,000 was al­so re­trieved.

The ex­er­cise was a part of the ini­tia­tive “Op­er­a­tion Strike Back” ini­ti­at­ed by Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith, which is geared at re­tak­ing com­mu­ni­ties from the crim­i­nal el­e­ments.

Fol­low­ing the ex­er­cise, ar­rests were record­ed in the Scar­bor­ough, Crown Point and Rox­bor­ough dis­tricts on out­stand­ing war­rants, firearm, nar­cotics and traf­fic of­fences.