Central Division officers on Tuesday seized more than $6 million worth of drugs, two guns and arrested six people during an anti-crime exercised in the division.
According to police around 10 am, officers of the Central Division were on patrol in Freeport, when they stopped a car with three people. Police said they found a pistol with one round of ammunition in the car and arrested all three.
Officers on patrol in Felicity found another gun with three rounds of ammunition. Police said acting on a tip from a concerned citizen they were able to recover that illegal gun. So far, officers from the division have seized ten guns and recovered 504 rounds of ammunition.
Officers said they searched a bushy area, adjacent to a known drug block in Union Village, Felicity, near the cemetery, where they found the loaded Sig Sauer 9 mm pistol. The drugs, police said, was seized after a police exercise, lead by ASP Michael Sooker and which included Sgt Jitindra Tooleram and Sgt Glen Persad.
Around 3 pm, the officers went to Ramkalia Trace, Calcutta Road, Freeport, where 19 kilogrammes of cocaine were found and two people arrested. The drugs have a street value of $6 million.
Later that afternoon, officers went to a house at Old Road, Longdenville, and searched the house. There, one man was arrested for possession of three kilogrammes of marijuana worth $120,000. The drugs was a mixture of local and Jamaican grade, officers said.