Seven in custody
CHARLESTOWN, Nevis – TWO more firearms are off the Federation’s streets and seven individuals are in custody at the Charlestown Police Station assisting officers with their investigation into the find.
Speaking with SKNVibes, Head of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Nevis Division, Inspector Andre Mitchell said that in their continuous fight against crime, officers on a routine patrol sometime after mid-night (Dec. 24) found two firearms and a quantity of ammunition at the back of a Chinese restaurant in Charlestown called Excellent Fast Food.
Mitchell said the firearms are a .38 pistol with four matching rounds of ammunition and a .22 with one round of matching ammunition. He also said the firearms and ammunition were found at the rear of the restaurant where seven men had congregated, and that the find as well as the men were taken into police custody.
This media house learned that one of the pistols is suspected to be among the three firearms that were missing from the Gingerland Police station on Friday, October 9, 2009.
Investigations, he added, are ongoing.
This find brings to 44 the total number of illegal firearms removed from the streets of the Federation by the police for the year; 10 on Nevis and 34 on St. Kitts.
