Shane Su­perville

A 14-year-old boy and two 16-year-olds are among four peo­ple ar­rest­ed in re­la­tion to sus­pect­ed gang af­fil­i­a­tion in San Juan.

Po­lice said of­fi­cers of the In­ter-Agency Task Force (IATF), vis­it­ed Fran­cis Av­enue, Pe­tit Bourg, at around 4 pm on Sun­day when they saw the three teenagers stand­ing near a 19-year-old sus­pect­ed gang mem­ber.

On see­ing the po­lice, the 14-year-old boy dropped a blue ban­dana, which po­lice searched and found two rounds of 45 mm am­mu­ni­tion. The teenagers were ar­rest­ed on en­quiries for be­ing af­fil­i­ates of a gang and a du­ty coun­sel in­formed.

The Law As­so­ci­a­tion of TT pro­vides du­ty coun­sel rep­re­sen­ta­tion for any mi­nor ar­rest­ed for any of­fence or in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

The man de­scribed as a sus­pect­ed gang mem­ber was al­so ar­rest­ed.