Po­lice seized two home­made shot­guns, re­cov­ered stolen cash, and ar­rest­ed sev­er­al sus­pects in a se­ries of an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions across Trinidad be­tween Fri­day and Sun­day.

In a state­ment is­sued yes­ter­day the TTPS said, in the South­ern Di­vi­sion, of­fi­cers seized a home­made shot­gun fol­low­ing a con­fronta­tion be­tween two neigh­bours in New Grant. Po­lice said the vic­tim, an un­em­ployed man from Na­pari­ma–Ma­yaro Road, was pick­ing man­goes be­hind his home when he was ap­proached by a man known to him. The man al­leged­ly is­sued threats, left the area, and re­turned short­ly af­ter armed with a firearm.

A strug­gle re­port­ed­ly en­sued, dur­ing which the vic­tim dis­armed the sus­pect, who then fled the scene. Of­fi­cers re­spond­ed prompt­ly and took pos­ses­sion of the weapon. In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing.

Al­so in the South, four per­sons were ar­rest­ed and five fixed penal­ty no­tices is­sued dur­ing a traf­fic and breathal­yser ex­er­cise con­duct­ed be­tween 11.30 pm on Sat­ur­day and 3.30 am on Sun­day in the San Fer­nan­do Dis­trict.

The op­er­a­tion was car­ried out by the South­ern Di­vi­sion Road En­force­ment Task Force. Nine stop-and-search forms were com­plet­ed, and four men were ar­rest­ed for hav­ing breath al­co­hol lev­els ex­ceed­ing the le­gal lim­it. Those ar­rest­ed in­clud­ed a 29-year-old trades­man from Sun­rees Road, Pe­nal, a 38-year-old process op­er­a­tor from Welling­ton Gar­dens, Debe, a 39-year-old trades­man from Ra­mi Trace, Debe, and a 41-year-old welder from Gand­hi Vil­lage, Debe.

That op­er­a­tion was co­or­di­nat­ed by Snr Supt Si­mon, Supt Jaikaran, ASP Ram­saran, In­sp Ma­haraj, Sgt Nand­lal, and su­per­vised by Cpl Ram­nar­ine.

Mean­while, in Port-of-Spain, po­lice seized a sec­ond home­made shot­gun and sev­er­al rounds of am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise on Sat­ur­day. Be­tween 6 pm and 10 pm, of­fi­cers of the Spe­cial Re­sponse Unit and the Port-of-Spain and West­ern Di­vi­sion Emer­gency Re­sponse Pa­trol searched a premis­es on Davis Street, Gon­za­les.

The items seized in­clud­ed:

• One home­made shot­gun

• One 12-gauge car­tridge

• One ex­tend­ed .40 cal­i­bre mag­a­zine

• Eight .40 cal­i­bre rounds

• One 9mm mag­a­zine

• Fif­teen 5.56 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion

• One pair of cam­ou­flage pants

• One black util­i­ty vest

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing. The op­er­a­tion was led by ACP Hazel and co­or­di­nat­ed by Su­per­in­ten­dent Robain, ASP Ward, and In­spec­tor Saun­ders. It was su­per­vised by Ag/Sgt An­toine and Cor­po­ral Ghin­gooree.

In the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion, five men were ar­rest­ed and the full sum of $46,000 in stolen cash was re­cov­ered fol­low­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion on Fri­day. The ex­er­cise fol­lowed a rob­bery with vi­o­lence that took place ear­li­er that day in the car park of a bank­ing in­sti­tu­tion.

Act­ing on in­tel­li­gence, of­fi­cers of the Ch­agua­nas CID pro­ceed­ed to Roys­to­nia, Cou­va, where they ar­rest­ed four men and re­trieved the stolen cash. Those ar­rest­ed were:

• An 18-year-old from Bha­ga­loo Street, En­ter­prise, al­so a sus­pect in a se­ries of PH taxi-re­lat­ed rob­beries

• A 24-year-old from Naz­im Mo­hammed Street, Cara­pichaima

• A 26-year-old from Chase Vil­lage, Ch­agua­nas

• A 30-year-old from Palm Av­enue, Per­se­ver­ance, Cou­va

A fifth sus­pect, a 30-year-old man from Hard­bar­gain, Williamsville, and 6th Av­enue, Mal­ick, was ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with mul­ti­ple re­ports of lar­ce­ny mo­tor ve­hi­cle.

That op­er­a­tion was co­or­di­nat­ed by Su­per­in­ten­dent Glodon and ASP Si­mon and su­per­vised by Act­ing Sergeant Ba­boolal.