On Thursday last the police arrested a total of 13 men during cordon and search operations in the city.
A press release yesterday said that the men were arrested pending investigations into armed robberies, trafficking in narcotics and break and enter and larceny.
One of the men, according to the police, had been sentenced to one year in prison earlier this year for possession of smoking utensils (narcotics) following an ex parte trial.
Police also said that around 0930 hours on Friday ranks searched a building at King Edward Street, Albouystown, where two unregistered motorcycles, suspected to have been smuggled into the country via Lethem, were found.
Investigations are in progress in that case.
