Six peo­ple were ar­rest­ed for var­i­ous of­fences dur­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es yes­ter­day, con­duct­ed by of­fi­cers of the East­ern and To­ba­go Di­vi­sions.

In the first ex­er­cise, of­fi­cers of the Rio Claro po­lice sta­tion were car­ry­ing out road check du­ties on Mon­day (June 9, 2025) be­tween 2:20 am and 6:50 pm, when they stopped a black Hyundai Elantra mo­tor ve­hi­cle, with two oc­cu­pants.

A search of the ve­hi­cle re­sult­ed in the un­earthing of one pis­tol, two mag­a­zines and a to­tal of 32 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion.

The ve­hi­cle’s two oc­cu­pants—a 40-year-old man of Tacarigua, and a 21-year-old woman of Port of Spain—were ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the dis­cov­ery.

Mean­while, in the Va­len­cia dis­trict, Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment of­fi­cers con­duct­ed an ex­er­cise be­tween 4:30 pm and 7 pm, yes­ter­day, dur­ing which they in­ter­cept­ed a white Kia K2700 pick­up truck with three oc­cu­pants, in­clud­ing a 17-year-old male.

A search of the ve­hi­cle re­sult­ed in of­fi­cers find­ing one pis­tol loaded with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing 15 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion.

The 17-year-old, along with the oth­er two sus­pects—a 46-year-old and a 22-year-old, both of Va­len­cia—were ar­rest­ed.

The teenag­er is said to be want­ed by de­tec­tives of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions (Re­gion Two) in con­nec­tion with a March 2025 mur­der in the San­gre Grande dis­trict.

And al­so on Mon­day in the To­ba­go dis­trict, of­fi­cers of the In­ter-Agency Task Force con­duct­ed an ex­er­cise around 10:15 pm.

The of­fi­cers pro­ceed­ed to the Rise­land dis­trict where they ob­served a white Ti­i­da mo­tor ve­hi­cle that had been in­volved in a re­cent rob­bery in­ci­dent.

Checks of a near­by apart­ment build­ing re­sult­ed in the dis­cov­ery of 2.6 kilo­grammes of cannabis and a quan­ti­ty of co­caine.

One man was sub­se­quent­ly ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the re­port of rob­bery.

The Po­lice Ser­vice says in­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing in­to all these cas­es.