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Peninsula Police Get Gun
posted (June 17, 2015)

Yesterday, Placencia Police seized a homemade firearm in Seine Bight Village.

The Quick Response Team was in Seine Bight on a drug sweep, and found it in an open lot. It is believed to be a part of a homemade handgun, the rest of which was hidden at a different location. No one was present at the time, it was deposited as found property.

Later that same day, the QRT received intelligence from Placencia Special Branch, and that led them to an area behind the cemetery in Independence Village. The officers searched inside a culvert, and that's where they found this 9mm pistol with an empty magazine, which was wrapped in a plastic bag. Again, no one was found in the area, and so, the weapon was deposited as found property.

Placencia Police will continue to maintain vigilance, as it approaches the Lobster Fest Weekend in on the peninsula.

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