A cou­ple from cen­tral Trinidad are among three peo­ple ex­pect­ed to ap­pear in court to­day charged with pos­ses­sion of guns and nar­cotics. They were ar­rest­ed in two sep­a­rate po­lice ex­er­cis­es be­tween Wednes­day evening and yes­ter­day.

In the first ex­er­cise, a 29-year-old Mara­cas man was ar­rest­ed dur­ing an ex­er­cise led by Sgt Ster­lin Tay­lor and in­clud­ing Cpl Shi­raz Ali and Con­sta­bles Lin­don Hold­er, Varin Man­na and Ji­brael Ali. They found a re­volver with two rounds of am­mu­ni­tion and a quan­ti­ty of mar­i­jua­na in a white pan­el van at Mara­cas and ar­rest­ed the dri­ver of the ve­hi­cle.

The ex­er­cise was part of an on­go­ing ef­fort by of­fi­cers to ar­rest a man in the Mara­cas/Las Cuevas area they say is a “king­pin” in drug traf­fick­ing along the north coast.

In the sec­ond po­lice ex­er­cise, Cen­tral Di­vi­sion of­fi­cers led by Sgt Per­sad and Cpl Bas­sant went to a house at Union Vil­lage, Cou­va, armed with a search war­rant and ar­rest­ed a cou­ple af­ter find­ing two 9 mm re­volvers along with 28 rounds of 9 mm am­mu­ni­tion in their pos­ses­sion. They al­so found 13 trans­par­ent pack­ets con­tain­ing high grade mar­i­jua­na with an es­ti­mat­ed street val­ue of $250,000.