Four peo­ple were ar­rest­ed while two firearms, am­mu­ni­tion, and mar­i­jua­na trees were seized dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise car­ried out in the North East­ern Di­vi­sion on Wednes­day.

Po­lice said the in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion was con­duct­ed be­tween 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. in the Barataria dis­trict by of­fi­cers at­tached to sev­er­al spe­cialised units.

Dur­ing the ex­er­cise, of­fi­cers went to Sawmill Av­enue, where they ar­rest­ed a 20-year-old man for pos­ses­sion of a Glock 19 pis­tol and two mag­a­zines con­tain­ing a to­tal of 25 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion.