Police executing a search warrant on the night of Monday 16 January 2017 at a residence in the Willet’s Housing Project in St. Pauls found and seized an illegal firearm and a quantity of marijuana.[1] Officers found one Springfield .40 pistol and ammunition, and seized a large quantity of marijuana, the Royal St Christopher and Nevis Police Force said in a release dated 17 January 2017.[1] SKNVibes reported that the find was discovered in a house in Willett’s Housing Project, St. Pauls, and that the operation involved the Police Force’s K-9 Unit, officers of Division B and members of the St. Kitts-Nevis Defence Force.[2]
The warrant was executed by officers of Police Division “B”, officers of the St Kitts-Nevis Defence Force and a team from the K-9 Unit.[1] Police said charges would be forthcoming, and gave no indication of how many people, if any, were taken into custody.[1] SKNVibes reported that the police release did not indicate how many individuals were taken into custody following the seizure, but said that charges were forthcoming.[2]
The force said the seizure was its second illegal firearm removed from communities so far in 2017, after 36 in 2016.[1] SKNVibes reported that the earlier firearm was a Mac 10 pistol found six days earlier, wrapped in a plastic bag in the Upper Cayon area, with a matching magazine and .9mm rounds of ammunition also seized.[2] Divisional Commander Police Superintendent Lionel Moore commended the team, saying that focused intelligence gathering and textbook search operations with attention to detail had paid off.[1]
SKN PULSE published the same police release with the same account of the search, the pistol and the marijuana, and added the captions “Illegal seized firearm” and “Marijuana seized on Monday night.”[3]
