The home of an­oth­er promi­nent south busi­ness­man is cur­rent­ly be­ing searched by po­lice in an ex­ten­sive op­er­a­tion that be­gan just af­ter 6 am.

Three homes have so far been searched but po­lice have not re­leased de­tails about the mo­tive for this ex­er­cise.

Po­lice sources tell Guardian Me­dia this is an in­tel­li­gence-dri­ven ex­er­cise linked to an on­go­ing nar­cotics in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

Guardian Me­dia has been re­li­ably in­formed that of­fi­cers are cur­rent­ly at a home on Sea View Av­enue, Gulf View, La Ro­main where an­oth­er search is be­ing con­duct­ed.

Ear­li­er to­day, po­lice con­duct­ed a two-hour raid at the home of a promi­nent south busi­ness­man with of­fi­cers leav­ing emp­ty-hand­ed.

The raid was con­duct­ed by the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Re­sponse Team (SORT) short­ly af­ter dawn at Pen­ny Av­enue, Gulf View, La Ro­maine, the home of busi­ness­man Si­mon Alexan­der, own­er of Al­lied In­dus­tri­al Sup­plies Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed.

Alexan­der's Range Rover was parked out­side of the house and more than 10 po­lice ve­hi­cles with more than a dozen of­fi­cers were in­volved in the search. Neigh­bours gath­ered out­side the build­ing to watch the raid and many of them said the Alexan­der fam­i­ly was not known to be in­volved in ne­far­i­ous ac­tiv­i­ties.

Fol­low­ing the raid, se­nior of­fi­cers con­firmed that noth­ing was found.

Alexan­der and his wife were seen leav­ing the house around 8.15 am and he stopped to speak with the Guardian Me­dia team briefly. When ap­proached he said some­one told the po­lice he had drugs in the house.

"You know me and every­one knows that I am not in­to that kind of thing," he said.

Alexan­der said he was go­ing to open up his busi­ness place at Scott Street, San Fer­nan­do.

"Life has to go on," he said.

This is a de­vel­op­ing sto­ry.