Police ranks, in collaboration with a private security officer, conducted an intelligence-led operation on Friday afternoon in the Grant Sand Road area at Soesdyke, where several men were seen on the road leading to the sandpit.
The ranks approached about sixty feet away from the men and they ran farther into the abandoned sandpit and disappeared.
The area was searched and a 9mm Grand Power semi-automatic pistol with three live rounds wrapped in a white plastic bag, was retrieved.