Sergeant Lyndel Lodge displays guns and ammunition seized by the police on Guava Road in Olympic Gardens, St. Andrew, yesterday. - Rudolph Brown/Chief Photographer
Forty-six persons are being detained for questioning following a joint police/military operation on Saturday night in Olympic Gardens, St. Andrew.
During the operation, two firearms were seized and, according to the police, one man has since been arrested in connection with the find.
The man, 31-year-old Arnold Anderson of a Hagley Park Road address, was attempting to flee from a residence on Guava Road.
He was accosted and a 9mm pistol with two rounds of ammunition taken from him.
Anderson is now on charges of illegal possession of firearm and ammunition.
According to police reports, a shotgun was found earlier in a churchyard along Guava Road.