Cops find guns and ammo in MorvantBy INDARJIT SEURAJ Wednesday, August 26 2009
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HEAVY METAL: The illegal guns and ammunition found by the police in Morvant, as well as the camouflage Army pants that was also seized....
Another dent in the illegal trade in arms and ammunition was made Monday, when officers of the North Eastern Division Task Force (NEDTF) recovered seven firearms and over 100 rounds of assorted ammunition.
The seizure comes just two weeks after the NEDTF officers were commended by Acting Police Commissioner James Philbert when they recovered a Venezuelan-made 12-gauge shot gun and a 7.26 calibre rifle in the Vegas, Morvant area.
And again yesterday, Sgt Roger Alexander and Cpl Darryl La Pierre, who led an NEDTF team comprising Police Constables Sunil Barrath, Patrick Antoine, Jason Lavia, Kerwin Titre and Kevin Reyes, were commended for their good work in seizing the deadly firearms.
In a phone interview yesterday, Philbert reiterated the measure of rewards for good policing, but noted that he would not let a few bad apples spoil the lot.
“We have officers who are working hard, and we will commend them. And those who are pulling us down will be dealt with,” Philbert said. He also noted that the hard work of such officers would pay off in the long run.
The NEDTF officers were reportedly executing warrants during an exercise between 2.30 pm and 6.30 pm Monday.
They first went to an abandoned house in Vegas, Morvant, where they found an AK-47 assault rifle, two pistols and a home-made hand-held shot gun buried in the earth. They next went to Pelican Extension, Morvant, where they found a high powered rifle — resembling an Israeli-made Galil — together with a pistol and another hand-held shotgun hidden in a fig patch.
The team also recovered a camouflage Army pants and close to 100 rounds of assorted ammunition, including 9 millimetre, 7.62 and .38 ammunition.
The firearms at Pelican Extension were recovered at the back of a house occupied by a man who was a suspect in the slaying of WPC Elizabeth Sutherland, her 48-year-old husband Ivan, daughter Anika, 20, and family friend Kevin Serrette, 31, at the home of the Sutherlands’ at John Street, Pelican Extension Road, on January 22, 2007.
The man was recently charged with the unlawful possession of firearm and ammunition, and is on bail after he was recently charged with threatening a police officer with a firearm in Santa Cruz.
