According to the GSU, yesterday morning at 8:00 they searched a house on Raccoon Street Extension. Present at the time were residents, 26 year-old Lionel Sampson, 27 year-old Jane Ovado, 18 year-old Lodgrick Ovado, 45 year-old Evelyn Gibson, 19 year-old Lanicke Ovado, and 52 year-old Cyril Ovado.

The officers searched the entire house, and they discovered a chrome and black 9 mm pistol, which was loaded with 13 live rounds of ammunition, which were found hidden underneath the flooring of a storeroom in the downstairs area of the house.

As a result, the officers charged all of the occupants of the house with keeping an unlicensed firearm, and keeping unlicensed ammunition.

They were all taken before Magistrate Aretha Ford, who arraigned and remanded to prison until October 8, their next court date. According to the GSU, the weapon has been traced to a burglary in San Ignacio, which occurred on August 12.

They GSU also believes that Lionel Sampson is a member of the Jerusalem Bloods Gang. At around the same time yesterday, the GSU also recovered a stolen firearm.

According to the GSU, they conducted a search at #6748 Raccoon Street, where a house party was taking place. Nothing was detected in the house or the yard, but the officers found a 9 mm pistol which was loaded with 6 live rounds of ammunition. Because there was nobody in the near vicinity when the firearm was found, it was deposited as found property. The officers believe that someone from the party threw it away when they saw the GSU team coming.