A MAN has been arrested in Charlieville on Tuesday with a high-powered rifle.
A release by the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) stated that officers of the Port of Spain Division, conducted an anti-crime exercise in the Charlieville district on Tuesday.
The exercise was conducted between 12 noon and 8 pm, on by officers of the Port of Spain Criminal Investigations Department Operations Team.
Acting on information, the officers went to a house at Cemetery Street, Charlieville, where they executed a search warrant for illegal firearms.
The search resulted in one AR-15 rifle and ten rounds of 5.56 ammunition being found and seized.
A male suspect who was in the house at the time of the exercise was arrested in connection with the find.
