Three men are in custody following an incident at a riverside in St Elizabeth on Thursday, March 28.
This followed the seizure of a firearm and ammunition by the police in Middlesex district in the parish during the incident.
Reports from the Black River police are that about 6:25 pm, a police team was conducting operations in the area, when three men were seen in the vicinity of a river.
On the approach of the police, the men reportedly started acting in a manner that aroused the suspicion of the law enforcers.
The men were accosted and searched and a 9mm Glock pistol with a magazine containing twelve 9mm rounds of ammunition was reportedly found in a section of a pimento oil-refining machine that the men were operating.
They were taken into custody, pending further investigations by the police.
