Investigations are being conducted into the case of a police officer who says he lost his firearm and police identification badge when he left his pouch at an ATM machine in San Juan, on Friday night.
But hours before he actually made the report, a 25-year-old woman, of San Juan, reported to the police that she was allegedly given a gun and ammunition to be sold.
She told officers she realised it was a police-issued firearm as she noticed the TTPS’ markings.
According to Police 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, while 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 reported that at about 11.10 pm on Friday he went 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.
He said on his return to the car, he discovered the pouch missing.
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