A police officer holds the .44 Magnum revolver which was seized yesterday morning in Grants Pen, Kingston.

A man was yesterday arrested following the seizure of a .44 Magnum revolver, loaded with three rounds, in the volatile Grants Pen community in Kingston. Twenty-eight AK 47 rounds of ammunition were also taken from him, the police said.

The man, Damian Blake, alias "Mytom", 24, was held during a search for the killers of Senior Superintendent Lloyd McDonald, who was shot dead by gunmen on Waterloo Road more than two weeks ago.

The operation was carried out jointly by the Organised Crime Unit (OCU), Mobile Reserve, Flying Squad and the Half-Way-Tree police.

Deputy Superintendent Cornwall "Bigga" Ford, head of the Flying Squad, said the operation began at approximately 4:00 am in the Grants Pen area. The operation also took the lawmen to Lower Ivy Road and Allman Town.

"[As a result of the joint operation] one man was arrested and charged with illegal possession of firearm and ammunition and will face an identification parade," Ford told the Observer yesterday.

Sixteen other men who were picked up during the operation, were yesterday being questioned for various crimes committed in the Corporate Area. Four of the 16 were picked up in Grants Pen and the others in Lower Ivy Road and Allman Town.

"The whole idea is to chip until we chip away the whole block [of crime]," Ford said of the gun and ammunition find.

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