T&T: Cop loses gun, badge while using ATM
A police officer reportedly lost his firearm and police identification badge when he left his pouch at an ATM machine in San Juan.
However, hours before he made the report, a 25-year-old woman from San Juan reported to the police that she was allegedly given a gun and ammunition to be sold.
She realised it was a police-issued firearm as she noticed the TTPS markings. Police said at about 4.20 am on Saturday, the woman of Santa Cruz Old Road, San Juan, arrived at the San Juan Police Station and reported that sometime earlier. At the same time, at home, a man who she knows came and handed her a firearm loaded with ammunition.
The man, she said, claimed that he had wanted to sell the gun to another man for $2,000.
She told police she took possession of it, took out the magazine and then began taking out rounds of ammunition which she counted to be eleven rounds of 9mm and saw the engravings “TTPS” on the firearm and ammunition.
She also reportedly told the police that her boyfriend arrived sometime after, and an argument and scuffle broke, after which he took the gun and left the house.
The woman went to the police station and made a report.
Police said eleven rounds of 9mm ammunition with the markings TTPS were subsequently retrieved. In the initial report, on Saturday, at about 12.45 pm, a police officer assigned to the Carenage Police Station went to the San Juan Police Station and reported that he had lost his TTPS issued firearm and two magazines containing 30 rounds of 9mm. He noted that at about 11.10 pm on Friday, he went to the ATM at the RBC compound, Eastern Main Road, San Juan, and left his black pouch, which contained the firearm and ammunition along with his badge, on the front passenger seat of his vehicle which he locked and secured and went to make a withdrawal.
On his return to the car, he discovered the pouch missing.
Members of the San Juan CID conducted enquiries, and several people were interviewed.
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