Six Venezuelan nationals who are in this country illegally were arrested Monday afternoon after police raided a house Penal, where officers found and seized a quantity of ammunition.

Penal Criminal Investigations Department (CID) officers led an exercise between 5:10 pm and 6:30 pm on Monday, when, acting on intelligence,  they proceeded to a two-storey wooden and concrete structure located at Gopie Trace, Branch Trace, Penal, where the foreign nationals.

A search was conducted of the premises following which the officers discovered 54 rounds of .38 ammunition in a white sock in a multi-coloured knapsack on the floor.

The ammunition is undergoing forensic processing.

All six immigrants have since been medically examined and are being processed by the Immigration Division.