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Monday, July 21, 2025

6 more guns seized, 4 people arrested

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Chester Sambrano
874 days ago
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Po­lice of­fi­cers seized six more il­le­gal firearms yes­ter­day,in­clud­ing an AR-15 ri­fle and AK-47, to bring the tal­ly to 40 il­le­gal firearms seized in Feb­ru­ary. 

In a state­ment, the TTPS said three of the firearms, along with vary­ing quan­ti­ties of am­mu­ni­tion, were seized dur­ing ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed in the North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion, while the fourth weapon was seized in the North East­ern Di­vi­sion. 

It said while con­duct­ing an ex­er­cise around 5:15 pm yes­ter­day, of­fi­cers re­ceived cer­tain in­for­ma­tion, then pro­ceed­ed to Tu­na­puna Road, Tu­na­puna. There, the of­fi­cers in­ter­cept­ed a white Nis­san B12 ve­hi­cle, with three oc­cu­pants. How­ev­er, two of the oc­cu­pants ran away and es­caped, leav­ing the front seat pas­sen­ger in the ve­hi­cle. When the of­fi­cers searched the ve­hi­cle,they re­port­ed­ly found one AR-15 ri­fle, with a mag­a­zine loaded with 14 rounds of 5.56 am­mu­ni­tion, in the back seat of the ve­hi­cle. 

The of­fi­cers took pos­ses­sion of the il­le­gal items, ar­rest­ed a 23-year- old man from Va­len­cia, and are cur­rent­ly search­ing for the two oth­er sus­pects. 

In an­oth­er in­ci­dent, a sus­pect lost a footrace with the po­lice and was de­tained. Around 3:30 pm yes­ter­day Emer­gency Re­sponse Pa­trol (ERP) of­fi­cers were on du­ty, pro­ceed­ing east 

along San Pe­dro Road, Mara­cas, St. Joseph, when they ob­served a man with a firearm in his right hand. The man looked in the di­rec­tion of the marked po­lice ve­hi­cle, turned and 

ran away. 

They re­port­ed­ly pur­sued the man and ob­served him throw a black ob­ject re­sem­bling a firearm, in­to the near­by bush­es. 

The sus­pect was sub­se­quent­ly de­tained. 

While search­ing along the edge of a riv­er, of­fi­cers are said to have found a firearm, fit­ted with one mag­a­zine, con­tain­ing 10 rounds of nine-mil­lime­tre am­mu­ni­tion. 

Po­lice said when they in­ter­viewed the sus­pect, they re­ceived in­for­ma­tion about the lo­ca­tion of an­oth­er firearm. They then pro­ceed­ed to a bushy area where they re­trieved an­oth­er pis­tol and 11 rounds of nine-mil­lime­tre am­mu­ni­tion. 

Ac­cord­ing to the TTPS, lat­er in the day around 7:30 pm, of­fi­cers re­ceived in­for­ma­tion, and then pro­ceed­ed to a bushy area along the Mara­cas Roy­al Road, Llu­en­go Vil­lage. There they dis­cov­ered one firearm fit­ted with a mag­a­zine, and one round of nine-mil­lime­tre am­mu­ni­tion. 

Mean­while, in the North East­ern Di­vi­sion, a search war­rant was ex­e­cut­ed for firearms and am­mu­ni­tion at a res­i­dence lo­cat­ed at In­dus­tri­al Lane, Mor­vant. When a search of the res­i­dence and the sur­round­ing en­vi­ron­ment was con­duct­ed, a buck­et which con­tained one Mi­cro Dra­co 7.62 mm x 39 mm AK-47 firearm fit­ted with a dou­ble mag­a­zine con­tain­ing 53 rounds of 7.62 

mil­lime­tre am­mu­ni­tion was found. A 28-year-old man was ar­rest­ed and tak­en to the San Juan Po­lice Sta­tion to be processed and charged. 

Ad­di­tion­al­ly, the Po­lice Ser­vice said around noon yes­ter­day of­fi­cers of the South­ern Di­vi­sion re­spond­ed to a re­port of a man armed with a firearm at La­dy Hailes Av­enue, San Fer­nan­do. Up­on ar­rival, they re­port­ed­ly ob­served a man bran­dish­ing a firearm. The of­fi­cers in­struct­ed the man to drop the weapon and he com­plied. The 19-year-old sus­pect was ar­rest­ed and the of­fi­cers seized one Beretta nine-mil­lime­tre pis­tol fit­ted with an ex­tend­ed mag­a­zine con­tain­ing 14 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion. 

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