Cops recover three illegal guns in separate raids

A 40-year-old labourer from New Grant is expected to face a Princes Town magistrate on Monday charged with having an illegal gun and ammunition.

Police claimed they found a home-made 12-gauge shotgun and two 12-gauge cartridges under a mattress in a bedroom at Kelvin Ramjitsingh's home.

A release from police on Saturday said at around 5 am on Friday, officers from the Princes Town CID searched the house at Hindustan Road, on the outskirts of Princes Town where the weapon was recovered.

On Friday, during an anti-crime exercise in Carenage police found a .357-magnum revolver hidden under a boat on the roadside. No one was arrested, police said.

Earlier during the exercise, officers found five packets of cocaine weighing 360 grammes.

Police held a man and woman from Petit Valley for that offence.

In a separate raid in Crown Point, Tobago, on Thursday between 7 pm and 9 pm, police found a pistol concealed in a tree trunk near some vending booths.

A police report said officers got a tip-off shortly before 9 pm and went to Pigeon Point and after searching a bushy area they found a black .380 pistol with one magazine.