A 30-year-old woman has been ar­rest­ed af­ter po­lice re­cov­ered a high-pow­ered ri­fle and am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion in Mamoral No. 1 on Mon­day.

The op­er­a­tion, con­duct­ed by of­fi­cers of the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Gang Unit, stemmed from in­for­ma­tion that a man known as “Shawn” was al­leged­ly in pos­ses­sion of sev­er­al firearms be­lieved to have been stolen from the Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion at King’s Wharf.

Ac­cord­ing to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), in­tel­li­gence al­so sug­gest­ed that the sus­pect was trans­port­ing il­le­gal firearms in a white Kia K2700 mo­tor ve­hi­cle.