Thir­teen peo­ple were ar­rest­ed dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in Bar­rck­pore on Sep­tem­ber 17th. Eight were ar­rest­ed at a bar for breach of cur­few while 5 oth­ers were ar­rest­ed for var­i­ous of­fences in­clud­ing pos­ses­sion of pro­tect­ed birds and pos­ses­sion of co­caine. The fol­low­ing is a press re­lease from the TTPS:

Thir­teen per­sons were ar­rest­ed for var­i­ous of­fences by of­fi­cers of the South­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in the dis­trict on Fri­day, 17th Sep­tem­ber, 2021.

Based on in­for­ma­tion re­ceived, the of­fi­cers pro­ceed­ed to a bar at Rochard Junc­tion, Bar­rack­pore, where they saw sev­er­al per­sons gath­ered. Up­on fur­ther in­ves­ti­ga­tion, the of­fi­cers not­ed that the crowd was larg­er than five. Eight per­sons were ar­rest­ed and charged for the of­fence of Breach of the Pub­lic Health Reg­u­la­tions.

As the ex­er­cise con­tin­ued, the of­fi­cers con­duct­ed a search at an ad­ja­cent build­ing, where they found five per­sons, two of whom were in pos­ses­sion of 46 bullfinch­es. ARNOLD RAMKHLAWAN, 26, of Moru­ga, and SAMIEL JU­GON, 37, of Oropouche were both ar­rest­ed and sub­se­quent­ly charged with pos­ses­sion of pro­tect­ed birds with­out a per­mit, and keep­ing the pro­tect­ed birds in un­der­sized cages.

Mean­while the oth­er three, KELVIN AU­D­HEM, 57, of Clax­ton Bay, was charged for the of­fence of con­sum­ing al­co­hol in a pub­lic place, JIM­MY LAKHAN, 37, al­so of Clax­ton Bay, was charged for pos­ses­sion of co­caine, and ROBERT DILJOHN, 58, was ar­rest­ed for pos­ses­sion of cam­ou­flage cloth­ing and co­caine pos­ses­sion. Ramkhlawan and Ju­gon are ex­pect­ed to ap­pear to­day at the Princes Town Mag­is­trates’ Court to an­swer the charges.

The ex­er­cise was co-or­di­nat­ed by W/Snr. Supt. Lu­cia Win­ches­ter, A.S.P Ram­dass and In­spec­tor Phillip and su­per­vised by Sgt. Joseph, Sgt. Charles and Cpl. Phoolchan.