00:00There are more than 100 firearms missing from the San Fernando Municipal Police Station, as confirmed by a senior officer
00:06to TV6 News Today.
00:08Initially, investigators had said that some 62 firearms had been missing from the station's vault made up of Glock pistols,
00:15shotguns and MPXs, along with over 4,000 rounds of assorted ammunition.
00:20That number has now been revised upwards.
00:22The firearms went missing at the station early Sunday morning after 42-year-old acting Corporal Anoushka Eversley was killed
00:30allegedly by an off-duty officer who later cleaned out the vault and escaped with another man in a waiting
00:35car.
00:36Within hours, police had detained six suspects, including two police officers, and later recovered 22 of the firearms.
00:44Sources told TV6 News that some of the stolen firearms recovered by police had been buried in a shallow grave
00:49in the Forest Park dump.
00:51Sources have also confirmed that some of those stolen guns was expected to be sold to a known criminal figure
00:57in the San Fernando area, who has been in a war with a rival criminal in the Point Fortin area.
01:03ACP's Surinder Sagramsing of the Trinidad and Tobago Municipal Police in an interview with Express journalist Shivana Lal later confirmed
01:10that there were more than 100 guns missing.
01:14Sagramsing said it could possibly be 100 guns missing, or just a little more than that.
01:18He said they were currently doing an assessment and also looking at the records because there were firearms assigned to
01:24that station, as well as firearms that were on loan that were also lodged at that station.
01:30Sagramsing said,
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02:00Investigations are continuing.
02:03Mark Basant, TV6 News.
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