Five sus­pects have been ar­rest­ed and a firearm, am­mu­ni­tion, and nar­cotics seized fol­low­ing two an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es in the East­ern Di­vi­sion over the week­end.

The lat­est op­er­a­tion was car­ried out by of­fi­cers of the Man­zanil­la Po­lice Post be­tween 10:30 p.m. on Sat­ur­day and 2:00 a.m. on Sun­day.

Act­ing on in­tel­li­gence, of­fi­cers pro­ceed­ed to Plum Road, Man­zanil­la, where they ar­rest­ed a 27-year-old woman for pos­ses­sion of a firearm. The weapon was found loaded with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing 27 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion.

In an ear­li­er op­er­a­tion in the Ma­yaro dis­trict, which took place be­tween 2:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. on Fri­day 27th June, of­fi­cers from the Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment and Ca­nine Branch ar­rest­ed four in­di­vid­u­als.

The sus­pects, aged 24 to 52 and all res­i­dents of Ma­yaro, were held for var­i­ous of­fences in­clud­ing pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion and pos­ses­sion of co­caine.

Both op­er­a­tions were co­or­di­nat­ed by Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Pa­ponette and Act­ing In­spec­tor Ma­habir.