A sus­pect want­ed by the po­lice was ar­rest­ed and a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion seized dur­ing in­tel­li­gence-led po­lice op­er­a­tions in La Ro­maine over two days, as the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) in­ten­si­fied an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es across the South­ern and South West­ern Di­vi­sions.

In a state­ment is­sued yes­ter­day, po­lice said the op­er­a­tion was con­duct­ed around 5.10 am on Fri­day. Of­fi­cers as­signed to the San Fer­nan­do Po­lice Sta­tion, South­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force and the San Fer­nan­do Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tion De­part­ment act­ed on in­for­ma­tion from the Echo Com­mand Cen­tre that a want­ed sus­pect, be­lieved to be armed, was at a house on Murli Street, La Ro­maine.

Of­fi­cers car­ried out a search of the premis­es un­der Reg­u­la­tion 12 of the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, 2026, and al­leged­ly found a firearm and six rounds of am­mu­ni­tion.