Sunday, March 21, 2004

T&T: Venezuelan grenades found in Arima

Police seized a live hand grenade, 210 kilogrammes of marijuana with an estimated street value of $1.8 million, two pump-action shotguns, 22 rounds of 12-gauge cartridges and two 9mm magazines during a raid at a house in Malabar, Arima, at around 7 pm on Friday night.
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Acting Commissioner of Police Trevor Paul confirmed the grenade find when Sunday Guardian spoke to him yesterday.

“Yes, the police have it,” he said.

He said other information on the grenade was regarded as “sensitive.”

The is the second grenade find in this country in some four months, the last time being in November when at least five live hand grenades were found in South Trinidad.
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Those grenades were later said to have a Venezuelan link because of markings which read HE Fragmenticia.

Officers of the Firearms Interdiction Unit are still investigating the origin of those grenades.

“It’s a very serious thing, grenades being found in Trinidad,” one officer said.

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