Three illegal guns seized in first hour of 2021
Published:Friday | January 1, 2021 | 12:21 PM
The police are reporting that they seized three illegal firearms in separate incidents in the first hour of the new year.
In the first incident a minute after midnight, the police say on approaching a man on Casino Drive in Naggo Head, St Catherine, he ran away leaving behind a homemade shotgun with five rounds of ammunition.
Minutes later in Glendevon, St James, a teenage boy and two others were apprehended and a .45 pistol with seven rounds of ammunition taken from them.
In the third incident, a semi-automatic submachine gun was found at a property about 12:40 a.m. during a police-military operation in Dempshire Pen, St Catherine.
The police say the gun was found among debris.
No arrest was made.
Know about an illegal gun? Call: Crime Stop at 311 or police emergency at 119.
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