KINGSTON, Jamaica – The police are reporting that four people are now in custody following the seizure of four firearms and 35 assorted rounds of ammunition across four parishes yesterday.

Charged with illegal possession of firearm and ammunition are 35-year-old Prince Irving, labourer from Oracabessa, St Mary  and 22-year-old Demar Williams, otherwise called ‘Demons’, from Spanish Town, St Catherine.

According to reports, the first seizure occurred in Port Maria, St Mary about 4:30 pm, during an operation in a car park when Irving was accosted and searched. 

They added that the bag he was carrying was also searched and found to contain a Bersa SA 9mm pistol and seven 9mm cartridges.

The second incident, which police said was a snap raid, occurred 9:15 pm in the Church Pen community of Old Harbour in St Catherine. Williams was accosted and a bag he was carrying searched and a .38 revolver and a magazine containing six .38 rounds of ammunition were found inside the bag.

An operation which took place in St Ann and Westmoreland later that night resulted in the search of two men in the Mansfield Heights community.  The police said while a .380 Smith and Wesson pistol containing eight .380 rounds of ammunition was taken from the waistband of one of the men, the man managed to escape.

In the last incident, which happened at a bar on Mint Road in Grange Hill, Westmoreland a patron dropped a firearm.

The firearm was retrieved and found to be a Taurus 9mm pistol containing fourteen 9mm rounds of ammunition.

The police said that the identities of the other two are being withheld pending further investigations.

Meanwhile, Prince Irving is scheduled to appear before the St Mary Parish Court on Wednesday July 19 while Demar Williams is scheduled to appear in the St Ann Parish Court on Friday, July 28.