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Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Two arrested for possession of gun and ammo

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News Desk
1805 days ago
20200916

A man and a woman have been ar­rest­ed for pos­ses­sion of a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, on Sep­tem­ber 15th of­fi­cers of the North East­ern and West­ern Di­vi­sions con­duct­ed an ex­er­cise be­tween the hours of 4 pm and 10 pm. The of­fi­cers ex­e­cut­ed a search war­rant at Don Miguel Road, Su­dan Trace, and Oud­han Trace, El Soc­cor­ro.

While there, of­fi­cers dis­cov­ered one AR 15 as­sault ri­fle, and an as­sort­ment of am­mu­ni­tion.

The cou­ple were im­me­di­ate­ly ar­rest­ed and tak­en to the po­lice sta­tion.

The 40-year-old man is ex­pect­ed to be charged with pos­ses­sion of firearm and am­mo and the woman is to be charged with use of ob­scene lan­guage.

In an­oth­er in­ci­dent around 9:15 pm the par­ty of of­fi­cers pro­ceed­ed to North Coast Road, Pat­na Vil­lage, Diego Mar­tin, based on in­for­ma­tion re­ceived.

The of­fi­cers dis­cov­ered a mul­ti-coloured mar­ket bag con­tain­ing one dou­ble bar­rel shot­gun and two 12 gauge car­tridges.

No one was ar­rest­ed. PC John­son is con­tin­u­ing en­quiries. Any­one with in­for­ma­tion in­to this dis­cov­ery is asked to con­tact the po­lice hot­line at 999, 555, or share the in­for­ma­tion via the TTPS’ App or web­site.

The ex­er­cise was spear­head­ed by Snr Supt Aroon Ramkelawan, ASP Gyan, and su­per­vised by In­sp (Ag) Pitt, Sgt (Ag) Pam­phille and of­fi­cers from Task Force Cen­tral Base, Task Force East, East Op­er­a­tions and Task Force In­tel­li­gence.

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