Sixteen people have been detained and are being interrogated by Southern Division detectives in connection with firearm and ammunition, drug trafficking, robbery and larceny offences as well as outstanding warrants.

According to the TTPS: “The group was arrested throughout the course of September 8th and
9th, by officers of the Southern Division Criminal Investigations Department, Task Force, Operations, Intelligence and Robbery Squad (OIRS), Court and Process and Stolen Vehicles.

Of the 16 arrested, five suspects were for robbery, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, disorderly behaviour and resisting arrest, respectively; three for larceny and four for outstanding
warrants, two for possession of arms and ammunition and camouflage and trafficking in cocaine, respectively.

According to police reports, at 11.30 am on September 8th, 2022, OIRS officers who were on mobile patrol along Orchid Gardens, Pleasantville, San Fernando, observed a male suspect on a staircase acting questionably.

Detectives engaged the suspect following which a search was conducted during which they allegedly found one Glock 19 Austria 9×19 fitted with a magazine on the right side of his waist.

The suspect, a 21-year-old man, of Union Hall, San Fernando, was immediately arrested and is assisting PC Basdeo of the OIRS with investigations. Meanwhile, while on patrol last Friday, another team of police officers received information which led them to an open area located
at Circular Road, Princes Town. There, they allegedly found a white plastic bag containing one silver-coloured revolver and four rounds of .38 ammunition.”