One man was ar­rest­ed and three firearms, along with quan­ti­ties of am­mu­ni­tion and cannabis, were seized dur­ing a se­ries of an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed by po­lice in the North-East­ern and South-West­ern Di­vi­sions this week.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, of­fi­cers at­tached to the North-East­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force and the Ca­nine Unit car­ried out co­or­di­nat­ed op­er­a­tions be­tween 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Thurs­day with­in sev­er­al com­mu­ni­ties in the di­vi­sion.

Dur­ing the ex­er­cise, of­fi­cers searched the homes of sev­er­al per­sons of in­ter­est, in­clud­ing the res­i­dence of a 58-year-old man along Ward Lane, El So­cor­ro. Po­lice said of­fi­cers dis­cov­ered a trans­par­ent bag con­tain­ing 138.7 grammes of cannabis dur­ing the search.