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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Welder held with AK-47 rifle, ammo, drugs

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2730 days ago
20180201

kevon.felmine@guardian.co.tt

A Vista­bel­la welder is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a San Fer­nan­do Mag­is­trate to­day to an­swer charges of pos­ses­sion of an AK-47 as­sault ri­fle and $500,000 worth of co­caine and mar­i­jua­na.

A re­port stat­ed that the South­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force, San Fer­nan­do CID and the Ca­nine Unit were on an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise through­out Mara­bel­la, Vista­bel­la and La Ro­maine to crack down on a drug op­er­a­tion.

The team, which in­clud­ed Snr Supt Zamsheed Mo­hammed and ASP Pe­ter Ramdeen, In­sp Don Ga­jad­har, Sgt Dale Ram­roop and Cpl Bar­ry Bac­chus went to a house on Whar­ton Street, Vista­bel­la.

While search­ing the house, they found an AK-47 as­sault ri­fle, 81 rounds of 7.62 mm am­mu­ni­tion and 32 rounds of 5.56mm am­mu­ni­tion.

There were al­so 900 grammes of co­caine and 4200 grammes of mar­i­jua­na. The sus­pect was ar­rest­ed and tak­en to the San Fer­nan­do Po­lice Sta­tion where he was charged by PC Wes­ley As­cevero for the pos­ses­sion of firearms, pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion, pos­ses­sion of mar­i­jua­na for the pur­pose of traf­fick­ing and pos­ses­sion of co­caine for the pur­pose of traf­fick­ing.

Sev­er­al oth­er drug blocks were raid­ed but po­lice came up emp­ty-hand­ed.

Mean­while, po­lice have wrapped up their search for a Rousil­lac woman. Po­lice said Pa­tri­cia Rachel Mo­hammed, 37, who was re­port­ed miss­ing by her fa­ther-in-law Rudolph De Souza on Tues­day has been found.

They pro­vid­ed no ad­di­tion­al in­for­ma­tion on where she was found or her med­ical con­di­tion.


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