M16 rifles, ammo seized in Highway gun bust
ST CATHERINE, Jamaica — A police team headed by Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of the Crime and Security Portfolio, Fitz Bailey, are reporting that they have seized approximately nine firearms and 466 rounds of assorted ammunition during a targeted operation on a section of the Edward Seaga Highway in St Catherine on Friday.
According to police reports, a team acting on information, intercepted two motor vehicles on the highway at approximately 9:30 pm. A search of the vehicles was subsequently conducted.
The latter yielded:
Three M16 rifles
Five Pistols
One Revolver
Two-hundred and thirty 5.56 rounds of ammunition
Forty-five .38 cartridges
One hundred fifty 9mm cartridges
Twenty-one .45 cartridges
Eight rifle magazines
Seventeen pistol magazines
Three men were taken into custody. Their identities have however been withheld to facilitate further investigations.