Two persons were arrested and a firearm and quantities of ammunition and marijuana seized, by officers of the North Eastern Division Task Force, during an anti-crime exercise conducted in the El Socorro yesterday. 

During the exercise conducted between 10:00 am and 4:00 pm, on March 28th  the officers had cause to arrest a 27-year-old man of New Lane, El Socorro, for possessing a pistol, 13 rounds of ammunition and 465 grammes of marijuana.

 Officers also held a 16-year-old suspect of the district, for possession of 64 grammes of marijuana during the same exercise.

A 20-year-old man has been arrested and charged by officers of the Northern Division after he was found in possession of a firearm and ammunition.

According to police reports,  during an exercise on February 25th officers of the Northern Division Task Force, received information that lead them to the intersection of the Priority Bus Route and La Resource South, D’Abadie, where they conducted a search of the suspect.

The search resulted in officers discovering a Beretta pistol loaded with a magazine containing four rounds of 9mm ammunition.

A loaded pis­tol and a small quan­ti­ty of mar­i­jua­na have been seized by of­fi­cers of the In­ter-Agency Task Force (IATF) dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in the Laven­tille area.

The Po­lice Ser­vice said a par­ty of of­fi­cers at­tached to IATF Strike Team car­ried out a search of a bushy area near the bas­ket­ball court in Strak­er Vil­lage.

The search led to one Beretta PX4 Storm pis­tol fit­ted with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing three rounds of 9mm am­mu­ni­tion and a plas­tic bag con­tain­ing 45 grammes of mar­i­jua­na.