Three in­di­vid­u­als were ar­rest­ed, and a firearm, am­mu­ni­tion, and cannabis were seized dur­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed in the North­ern and North Cen­tral Di­vi­sions on Thurs­day.

In the first op­er­a­tion, of­fi­cers of the North­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force, while con­duct­ing an ex­er­cise in the La Hor­quet­ta Dis­trict, dis­cov­ered a cro­cus bag con­tain­ing a home­made shot­gun and 12-gauge am­mu­ni­tion along Are­na Road in Brazil Vil­lage.

In a sep­a­rate ex­er­cise in the Ari­ma Busi­ness Dis­trict, East­ern Main Road D’Abadie, La Hor­quet­ta, and Pin­to Dis­tricts, of­fi­cers ob­served a Toy­ota Corol­la trav­el­ing along Pin­to Road that matched the de­scrip­tion of a ve­hi­cle in­volved in a shoot­ing in­ci­dent in Mara­cas St. Joseph.

The ve­hi­cle was in­ter­cept­ed, and al­though no il­le­gal items were found, the dri­ver was ar­rest­ed and tak­en to the Ari­ma Po­lice Sta­tion for fur­ther in­quiries.

Fur­ther ex­er­cis­es by the North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Task Force re­sult­ed in the ar­rest of two in­di­vid­u­als and the seizure of 1.76 kilo­grams of cannabis with an es­ti­mat­ed street val­ue of $52,800TT. Dur­ing the op­er­a­tion, of­fi­cers in­ter­cept­ed a sil­ver Toy­ota Field­er Wag­on in Trinci­ty with two male oc­cu­pants. A search of the ve­hi­cle re­vealed the cannabis.

The sus­pects are ex­pect­ed to be charged with pos­ses­sion of cannabis for the pur­pose of traf­fick­ing.