Six Venezuelan nationals who are in this country illegally were among 13 persons arrested for various offences within the South-Western Division on Wednesday.

This follows a four hour crime suppression exercise initiated by the detectives of the Penal Criminal Investigations Department (CID).

The offences ranged from possession of weapons and ammunition, robbery and threats to kill.

All suspects, including the Venezuelan nationals who have been confined into quarantine, will be charged later this week for the offences.

The exercises were coordinated by Snr Supt (Ag) Brandon John, ASP (Ag) Ramdeen, Insp (Ag) Simon and supervised by Sgt Haynes and included officers attached to the Penal CID and South-Western Division Task Force.