South Western Division police hold locals, Venezuelans

 - File photo
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South Western Division (SWD) police arrested six people, including a 22-year-old Venezuelan woman, on April 14 for various offences including having a gun, ammunition and marijuana.

A police statement said at around 4.30 am on April 14, SWD Task Force police were on mobile patrol in an Operation Safe Streets exercise near Phillip Avenue.

There they intercepted a green Nissan Almera with four occupants.

The police searched the car and found a Beretta pistol fitted with a magazine containing two rounds of ammunition under the driver’s seat.

The police arrested the four occupants, a 54-year-old man from Penal Rock Road and three Venezuelans: two men, 29 and 24, and the woman.

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The men were taken to the Siparia police station and the woman to the Erin police station.

The police also held two other suspects, a 20-year-old from Beckles Street, Penal, and a 33-year-old from Sobo Village, La Brea, for having 113.42 grammes of marijuana.

Snr Supt Remy, ASPs Mathura, Simon and Corrie, and Insp Prescott co-ordinated the exercise.

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