North­ern Di­vi­sion po­lice ar­rest­ed three per­sons and re­cov­ered one firearm in Op­er­a­tion Blue Line Ex­er­cis­es over the past 24 hours.

Of­fi­cers of Ari­ma Court and Process and Ari­ma Charge Room con­duct­ed an in­tel­li­gence-led ex­er­cise, near the scene of a fa­tal­shoot­ing on La Re­treat Road, Ari­ma, on Thurs­day.

The of­fi­cers con­duct­ed a search of a blue and white wood­en struc­ture where they dis­cov­ered a home­made shot­gun in a freez­er lo­cat­ed at the back of the struc­ture. The firearm was seized for fur­ther pro­cess­ing.

In an­oth­er Op­er­a­tion Blue Line ex­er­cise that day, of­fi­cers of the Cu­mu­to Po­lice Sta­tion stopped and searched a mo­tor ve­hi­cle oc­cu­pied by three per­sons.

The of­fi­cers found five feed bags con­tain­ing an as­sort­ment of cit­rus fruits in the ve­hi­cle. The two women and the man were un­able to ac­count for their pos­ses­sion of the items, and were sub­se­quent­ly ar­rest­ed and charged by PC Pavy for the of­fence of un­law­ful pos­ses­sion.

The women, a 26-year-old from Blan­chisseuse Road, and a 47-year-old from Caratal Road, Cu­mo­to, along with a 27-year-old San

Fran­cique man, are sched­uled to ap­pear be­fore San­gre Grande Mag­is­trate’s 2nd Court to­day.