Two years after the security forces reported that a 50-calibre high powered rifle was among weapons stockpiled by thugs in Tivoli Gardens, West Kingston, the weapon was located Saturday during a police/military operation in the community.
The Grizzly Big Boar rifle is used in long-range target and sniper firing and can carry armour piercing bullets.
The operation which ended just after 9 ' o clock last night also yielded other high powered weapons including another 50-calibre rifle and several hundred rounds of ammunition.
When our newsteam visited the Tivoli Gardens community, the heavy duty excavation equipment used to unearth the high powered weapons was parked near the burial site - an unfinished house in Rasta Town.
It is said to be the same house occupied by one of two men arrested by the police on Friday.
Head of the Constabulary Communication Network, CCN, Deputy Superintendent Steve Brown said the suspicion of the police was aroused after Friday's operation.
“ Based on what the police were picking up on the ground at the time, they were convinced that there was something else on the premises. So against that background they sealed off the premises. Police officers assisited by Soldiers from the Jamaica Defence Force used a back hoe and they also found two 50 calibre weapons, over 600 rounds of 7.62 ammunition, no arrest was made in connection with this find” he said.
The weapons were carefully greased, securely wrapped in truck tubing and hidden in a drum which was buried in a partially finished house.
The security forces are expected to continue their operation in the community on Sunday.
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