One man was ar­rest­ed for pos­ses­sion of a quan­ti­ty of mar­i­jua­na and a firearm found by of­fi­cers of the North­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force, dur­ing an Op­er­a­tion Strike Back 3 ex­er­cise con­duct­ed yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

The ex­er­cise, co­or­di­nat­ed by ACP Andy Bel­fon and Snr. Supt. Ramdeen, was con­duct­ed be­tween 12 noon and 6 pm and in­clud­ed of­fi­cers of the North­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force, Area Cen­tral, the Guard and Emer­gency Branch and the Ca­nine Unit.

Dur­ing the ex­er­cise, of­fi­cers con­duct­ed sev­er­al search­es in the North­ern and North East­ern Di­vi­sions and held a 28-year-old El So­cor­ro man for pos­ses­sion of a quan­ti­ty of mar­i­jua­na.

The same par­ty of of­fi­cers then pro­ceed­ed to Bound­ary Road, Aranguez, where they found a pis­tol loaded with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing one round of am­mu­ni­tion hid­den in a ceme­tery.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing.