INVESTIGATORS who continue to trace firearms and ammunition stolen from the San Fernando Municipal Police Station last Sunday—an attack that cost acting corporal Anuska Eversley her life—have received credible information that some of the Glock pistols were sold for at least $10,000 each.
Sources close to the investigation told the Express a businessman from the Central Trinidad area, who has gone into hiding, engineered the sale of a quantity of firearms and ammunition to a criminal figure in San Fernando, as well as another criminal from Enterprise over the last 48 hours.
The vehicle that was used to transport the firearms out of the Claxton Bay area was a Kia sedan which belongs to the businessman.
“That vehicle is yet to be located,” a police source said yesterday.
The source explained that some suspects in the case were providing more information to assist police in recovering the stolen guns and ammunition.
Another source said the businessman is known to have criminal links and they believe he played a role in getting the guns and ammunition out of the police station.
Twenty-two of the 43 firearms recovered were found buried in a shallow hole at the Forres Park dump, sources confirmed; while the other cache of weapons and some ammunition were recovered after three men were stopped in a road exercise near the Claxton Bay flyover on Tuesday in a white Kia K2700.
In the first recovery operation, ten Glock pistols, ten M&P pistols, one Browning pistol, and one Smith and Wesson pistol were recovered, along with 612 rounds of 9mm ammunition; while in the second seizure, 14 Glock pistols, one Benelli shotgun, and one Sig MPX submachine gun, along with 288 rounds of 9mm ammunition were found.
Though it had been originally believed there were only 62 firearms taken from the strongroom, this figure was later updated by ACP Surrendra Sagramsingh of the Trinidad and Tobago Municipal Police Service to more than 100 firearms stolen.
