Rhon­dor Dowlat-Ros­tant

A 46-year-old man was beat­en to death and left par­tial­ly sub­merged in a drain filled with wa­ter in an area known as Hell Yard in Beetham on Thurs­day.

How­ev­er, an au­top­sy is ex­pect­ed to con­firm the ac­tu­al cause of death.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, at about 3.30 pm Paul Tim­o­thy Adams, who was pop­u­lar­ly known as "Speedy" was found par­tial­ly sub­merged face down in a wa­ter-filled drain at 13th street.

Po­lice de­scribed Adams as a drug ad­dict and be­lieved that the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing his death were drug-re­lat­ed.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.

Cops seize mod­i­fied pis­tol

In an In­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion on Thurs­day in En­ter­prise, of­fi­cers re­cov­ered a mod­i­fied 9mm pis­tol which they said can cause mul­ti­ple deaths if used in an open pub­lic space.

The dis­cov­ery has been de­scribed as “wor­ry­ing” and as a re­sult, po­lice of­fi­cers are ask­ing mem­bers of the pub­lic who may have in­for­ma­tion as to the per­son or per­sons be­hind the weapon to con­tact them im­me­di­ate­ly as they fear that there may be more like it out on the streets.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice sources, just be­fore 6 pm on Thurs­day a team of po­lice of­fi­cers from the Guard and Emer­gency Branch act­ed on in­tel­li­gence re­ceived and went to a bushy area at Madoo Street where they found the con­cealed weapon loaded with 44 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion.

Po­lice said it had been mod­i­fied with a ful­ly ex­tend­ed mag­a­zine, to uti­lize the ad­di­tion­al am­mu­ni­tion, as well as, an au­to­mat­ic fea­ture.

Any­one with in­for­ma­tion is asked to con­tact the po­lice at 555, 999, 800 TIPS or 482 GARY.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing. RDR

Se­r­i­al bur­glar held

A 32-year-old sus­pect, want­ed in con­nec­tion with house break-ins and who is known to com­mit in­de­cent as­sault of­fences dur­ing such

break-ins, has been held.

The sus­pect was ar­rest­ed in the North East­ern Di­vi­sion

Po­lice said the man was pre­vi­ous­ly charged with a num­ber of of­fences in­clud­ing bur­glary, griev­ous sex­u­al as­sault, house break­ing, lar­ce­ny and se­ri­ous in­de­cen­cy.

They said Port of Spain Di­vi­sion and North East­ern Di­vi­sion de­tec­tives col­lab­o­rat­ed up­on re­al­iz­ing re­cent sim­i­lar of­fences had been com­mit­ted in their di­vi­sions.

The sus­pect was ar­rest­ed in the San­ta Cruz area on Thurs­day night by de­tec­tives from the San­ta Cruz Po­lice Sta­tion, and is cur­rent­ly in cus­tody in the Port- of- Spain Di­vi­sion where he is ex­pect­ed to be placed on iden­ti­fi­ca­tion pa­rade con­cern­ing of­fences com­mit­ted in the Wood­brook dis­trict.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to this mat­ter re­main ac­tive.