Six arrested after gun found in Arima house

Police arrested six people on March 13 after they found a gun and ammunition at a house in Arima.

Sometime between 11 am and 2 pm, Northern Division police including the North Gang Unit, Northern Division Task Force and officers from the Pinto Police Station went to a house at Heights of Guanapo, Arima.

They searched the house and found a Glock 17 pistol, three magazines and 63 rounds of ammunition.

They arrested a 22-year-old Chaguanas man and five Venezuelan nationals who are in the country illegally.

Later that day, Northern Division police and the Eastern Division Emergency Response Patrol Unit, then went to Clarence Trace, Valencia.

At around 6pm they did an exercise during which they found another Glock 17 pistol loaded with 10 rounds of ammunition near an abandoned structure.

Investigations are ongoing into the two finds.

Heights of Guanapo was the scene of the country's first triple murder for 2025.

On February 22, Anicia James, 47, her brother Anselm James, 49, and her common-law husband Mitchell Francois, 30, were shot dead in their home adjoining James's shop.

James's six-year-old son was shot in both feet.