To­ba­go po­lice seized an AR-15 ri­fle, am­mu­ni­tion, drugs, and sus­pect­ed stolen items dur­ing a raid in Les Coteaux yes­ter­day, as they in­ten­si­fied ef­forts to crack down on ris­ing gun vi­o­lence on the is­land.

Re­ports said of­fi­cers from the To­ba­go Di­vi­sion­al Task Force, sup­port­ed by the In­ter-Agency Task Force, Guard and Emer­gency Branch, K9 Unit and De­fence Force, car­ried out search­es across the Mo­ri­ah dis­trict be­tween 4 and 8 am.

They found the high-pow­ered ri­fle with 20 rounds of 5.56 am­mu­ni­tion and a mag­a­zine out­side a di­lap­i­dat­ed struc­ture at Mt Zion Trace. In­side, po­lice dis­cov­ered a duf­fle bag with 11 pack­ets of mar­i­jua­na and sev­er­al house­hold items be­lieved to be stolen, in­clud­ing a 65” Sam­sung tele­vi­sion.