CHESTER SAM­BRA­NO

Po­lice of­fi­cers have ar­rest­ed 18 peo­ple, and seized sev­er­al quan­ti­ties of drugs and il­le­gal firearms and am­mu­ni­tion, dur­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed with­in the last 24 hours across var­i­ous polic­ing di­vi­sions.

In a me­dia re­lease, the TTPS said be­tween the hours of 1:00 pm and 4:00 pm on Sat­ur­day in the Mor­vant dis­trict, North-East­ern Di­vi­sion of­fi­cers ex­e­cut­ed search war­rants at sev­er­al homes but found noth­ing men­tioned in the war­rants.

How­ev­er, a search was con­duct­ed in an open grassy area, along Pitch Road, Mor­vant and of­fi­cers found four plas­tic-wrapped pack­ages con­tain­ing mar­i­jua­na.

The drugs weighed 253 grams.

Of­fi­cers al­so ar­rest­ed a 41-year-old man of Laven­tille Ex­ten­sion Road, Nev­er Dirty, Mor­vant for en­quiries of a lar­ce­ny mo­tor ve­hi­cle which oc­curred on June 30 in the area.

The Po­lice Ser­vice al­so said be­tween the hours of 7:50 am and 10:05 am yes­ter­day, of­fi­cers in the Cou­va Po­lice Dis­trict, Cen­tral Di­vi­sion con­duct­ed ex­er­cis­es along the South­ern Main Road, Cal­i­for­nia and en­vi­rons, with em­pha­sis on the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Es­tate.

Dur­ing the ex­er­cise, sev­er­al peo­ple and ve­hi­cles were searched, and 11 elec­tron­ic fixed penal­ty no­tices were is­sued.

The TTPS al­so re­ports that in the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led an­ti-crime ex­er­cise, of­fi­cers searched and found five rounds of 5.56 cal­i­bre am­mu­ni­tion con­cealed in a ve­hi­cle parked at the home of a 31-year-old sus­pect.

The of­fi­cers pro­ceed­ed to Tem­ple Street, Palm Boule­vard, Mil­ton Vil­lage, Cou­va, where they searched a home and re­port­ed­ly found a quan­ti­ty of mar­i­jua­na, and a 49-year-old res­i­dent of the house was ar­rest­ed.

Ac­cord­ing to the TTPS, three sus­pects were al­so ar­rest­ed dur­ing ex­er­cis­es in the Long­denville area: a 44- year-old man of Cashew Gar­dens was charged for the of­fences of DUI, Ob­scene Lan­guage, Es­cap­ing Law­ful Cus­tody, In­sult­ing Lan­guage, Ma­li­cious Dam­age and Threats to kill Po­lice Of­fi­cers; a 20-year-old man of East­ern Lane, Pen­co Av­enue was held for Pos­ses­sion of Cannabis (96 grams); while a 37-year-old man of Chat­to­rie Street, Fe­lic­i­ty was held for Pos­ses­sion of Ap­pa­ra­tus and Threats to kill Po­lice Of­fi­cer.

Of­fi­cers al­so found and seized one Beretta Pis­tol with six rounds of .380 am­mu­ni­tion at a home in Ed­in­burgh 500.

Two male sus­pects were ar­rest­ed for the find.

The TTPS added that an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es in the South­ern Di­vi­sion led to the re­cov­ery of a Glock 17 Aus­tria 9x19 pis­tol with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing 15 rounds of 9-mil­lime­tre am­mu­ni­tion.

In North­ern Di­vi­sion, dur­ing war­rant ex­er­cis­es, of­fi­cers ar­rest­ed five men on firearm-re­lat­ed of­fences.

The men are as­sist­ing po­lice with fur­ther en­quiries.

Mean­while, in the East­ern Di­vi­sion, one per­son was ar­rest­ed for the of­fence of Pos­ses­sion of Am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in the Di­vi­sion.

The man was re­port­ed­ly found in pos­ses­sion of five rounds of 9-mil­lime­tre am­mu­ni­tion, and is not the hold­er of a Firearm Users Li­cense.

Fi­nal­ly, in the South-West­ern Di­vi­sion, dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise called ‘Op­er­a­tion Safe Street’, sev­er­al drug blocks were tar­get­ed in the Fyz­abad, Oropouche and San­ta Flo­ra Po­lice Dis­tricts, which re­sult­ed in the ar­rest of a 45-year-old man for pos­ses­sion of co­caine and a 21-year-old man rel­a­tive to out­stand­ing en­quiries.