Sev­er­al il­le­gal firearms were re­cov­ered and five men ar­rest­ed dur­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es across Point Fortin, Guapo, and Siparia be­tween Fri­day and Sat­ur­day.

Ac­cord­ing to a me­dia re­lease from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), the op­er­a­tions tar­get­ed pri­or­i­ty of­fend­ers and in­clud­ed mo­bile pa­trols, search ex­er­cis­es, and the ex­e­cu­tion of mul­ti­ple war­rants.

Around 2:00 a.m. on Sat­ur­day, of­fi­cers on pa­trol in Fan­ny Vil­lage stopped a dark green Nis­san X-Trail along Sun­set Beach Road. In­side the ve­hi­cle, they found a black Smith & Wes­son M&P .40 cal­i­bre pis­tol, a mag­a­zine, and three rounds of am­mu­ni­tion. The 34-year-old dri­ver, a con­trac­tor from ‘E’ Street Ex­ten­sion, Fan­ny Vil­lage, ad­mit­ted he had no Firearm User’s Li­cence and was ar­rest­ed.

In a sep­a­rate in­ci­dent around 9:15 p.m. on Fri­day, po­lice searched a 49-year-old man in Hu­bert Town, Gon­za­les Vil­lage, Guapo. He was al­leged­ly found with a Tau­rus 9mm pis­tol, a mag­a­zine, and five rounds of am­mu­ni­tion. He too was ar­rest­ed af­ter re­port­ed­ly ad­mit­ting to not hav­ing a Firearm User’s Li­cence.

In Siparia, of­fi­cers ex­e­cut­ed ten war­rants be­tween 3:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. on Fri­day. The ar­rests in­clud­ed:

-A 38-year-old man of Lo­gie Street for a com­mit­tal war­rant for ma­li­cious dam­age

-A 28-year-old man of Rail­way Road for two first in­stance war­rants re­lat­ed to sex­u­al of­fences

-A 35-year-old man of Dandy Lane for three first in­stance war­rants con­nect­ed to firearm and am­mu­ni­tion of­fences

-A 38-year-old man of Gon­za­les Street for four com­mit­tal war­rants

-A 41-year-old man of An­tho­ny Branch Trace for an af­fil­i­a­tion war­rant

Sev­er­al of the men ar­rest­ed are re­port­ed­ly linked to firearm and rob­bery-re­lat­ed crimes.

A bar op­er­a­tion was al­so con­duct­ed at South­ern Main Road, Vance Riv­er, Guapo, with sup­port from of­fi­cers in the Point Fortin CID, Gang In­tel­li­gence Unit, La Brea and Guapo Po­lice, Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice, the South West­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force, and the K-9 Unit.

The TTPS said in­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing.