A Police intelligence-led operation was conducted at about 05:30 hrs today during which a total of 26 handguns and high-powered rifles, along with a cache of ammunition, were found.
Six persons have also been arrested and are in custody, assisting with the investigation, the police said in a statement.
The Police team, led by a Superintendent, went to Lot 25 Sandy Babb Street, Kitty, at the home of Eon Fagundes, a 47-year-old clothes vendor, where a Search Warrant was executed. As the Police team entered the yard, Eon Fagundes was seen exiting the door of a flat wooden house in the yard with a side bag in his right hand.
The police say that he was confronted, and a search was carried out in the bag and one Sig Sauer Rifle and one magazine containing fourteen 9mm rounds of ammunition, one Polimore-80 9mm pistol without serial number and one magazine containing eight 9mm rounds of ammunition, one Spring Field Armory 45 pistol and four magazines, one containing five live .45 rounds of ammunition, and one Bravo gun holster were found.
The police say that Fagundes was asked if he was the holder of a firearm licence to carry the said firearms and he said ‘no’.
He was told of the offences committed, arrested and cautioned.
A further search was carried out in the house, but nothing else was found. A black Nissan Juke vehicle (Registration number PVV 6472) was parked on Sandy Babb Street’s southern side, facing west, opposite Eon Fagundes’ house. The vehicle was well secured.
The police say that Fagundes was asked who owned the car, and he said his daughter and the mother of his child, but he was the person using the car. He gave Police the keys to the vehicle, and a search was then carried out in his presence and the following firearms, ammunition and magazines were found in a suitcase, one golf bag and a haversack:
** One AM 15 rifle and two magazines containing sixty-one (61) .223 ammunition
** Two Ruger-57 9mm pistols and one magazine containing forty (40) 9mm ammunition
** One FN-45 pistol and two (2) magazines containing thirty-eight (38) .45 ammunition
** One Smith and Wesson 9mm pistol and one (1) magazine
** One Berretta 9mm pistol and one (1) magazine
** One Spring Field Hellcat 9mm pistol and one (1) magazine
** One Canik 9mm pistol and one (1) magazine
** One Glock 43 pistol and one (1) magazine
** Five Glock 19 pistols, nine (9) Magazines and twenty-one (21) 9mm ammunition
** Seven Glock 40 pistols and ten (10) magazines with eighteen (18) .40 ammunition
** Two Glock 17 9mm pistols and two (2) magazines
** One Glock 9mm pistol and one (1) magazine
** One Glock 45 pistol and one magazine.
The police say they also found in the bags and suitcase:
** Seventy-five (75) 12-gauge cartridges
** Four hundred and fifty-six (456) .223 ammunition
** Four hundred and eighty-four (484) 9mm ammunition
** Eighty-three (83) 5.7- 28 ammunition
** Thirteen (13) 10 MM ammunition
** Three hundred and fifteen (315) 7.62 -39 ammunition and
15 magazines.
Fagundes was further told of the offences committed and cautioned.
A total of 26 handguns and high-powered rifles were found during the successful Police intelligence-led operation.
The following persons who were at the said address in the house at the time of the Police operation were all arrested for questioning, namely:
** Carol Fagundes, the 66-year-old mother of Eon
** Devena Persaud, age 22 years, unemployed niece of Eon
** Theresa Fagundes, age 49 years, unemployed sister of Eon
** Tessa Persaud, age 48 years, unemployed sister of Eon
** Clement Thornton, age 48 years, a Handyman
The firearms, ammunition and magazines were taken to the GPF’s Ballistic Section to be examined, marked, sealed and lodged. The motor car was also lodged.
Investigations are in progress.
