Two arrested as Uzi and 622g cannabis seized in Tunapuna
Special Operations Response Team officers arrested two men after finding an Uzi submachine gun with 32 rounds of ammunition in a house on Maingot Road, Tunapuna. Officers later found three packets of marijuana weighing 622.5 grams in a bushy area nearby, with no arrest in that find.
Over the weekend before 29 May 2019, officers of the Special Operations Response
Team (SORT) searched a house on Maingot Road in Tunapuna and arrested the two
men found inside.[1]The two arrested men were taken to Tunapuna Police
Station, where they were questioned.[1]Police said the two men were assisting
with other investigations while charges of possession of arms and ammunition
were pending against them.[1]
Inside the Maingot Road house, officers found an Uzi submachine gun fitted with
a magazine containing 32 rounds of 9mm ammunition.[1]Acting on information
received after the house search, police later searched a bushy area in Tunapuna
and recovered three separate packets of marijuana weighing 622.5 grams in total.[1]
Police made no arrest in connection with the three packets of marijuana found in
the bushy area, and investigations into that find were continuing.[1]The gun
seizure and the later bushy-area cannabis recovery were reported as parts of the
same weekend SORT exercise in Tunapuna.[1]
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Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The article says the searches happened over the weekend before its 29 May 2019 publication date; 26 May 2019 is used as an approximate date and the exact day is not known.
Only one source for this event could be opened, so the account could not be cross-checked against a second report.
The report gives no street value for the marijuana and reports no cannabis charges.
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