Sergeant Milton Walters of the Special Anti-Crime Task Force (SACTF) fits an usual magazine to one of two illegal guns seized in Wilton Gardens (Rema) yesterday. - Norman Grindley /Staff Photographer THREE ILLEGAL firearms and over 130 assorted rounds of ammunition were seized by the police yesterday, less than 24 hours after National Security Minister Dr. Peter Phillips updated the nation on the Government's latest crime-fighting initiative in a televised broadcast.
Also, a teenager who was on the Hunts Bay police's most wanted list was shot and killed during a shoot-out with lawmen while an alleged area leader and his spouse were arrested and charged.
The revamped Special Anti-Crime Task Force (SACTF) which was one of three teams named by Police Commissioner Francis Forbes last December to tackle the scourge of crime islandwide, figured prominently in the various operations at different locations across the island.
Members of the SACTF, in a joint operation with the St. Andrew South CIB, struck at about 5:30 yesterday morning in the Greenvale area of Manchester where they shot and killed 18-year-old Adrian McTyson during a reported shoot-out. A 9-mm Sturm pistol and two live rounds were taken from him.
McTyson, of Building 9, Tavares Gardens, South West St. Andrew who was implicated in last week's brutal murder of Alethia Henry, a 23-year-old pregnant woman in the Tavares Gardens community, had reportedly fled to Manchester.
The second operation took the lawmen to Fourth Street in Wilton Gardens, called Rema, in South St. Andrew, where one of the alleged area leaders, Rohan 'Cornbread' Edwards and his spouse Makeda Yarde were arrested and charged in connection with the seizure of two illegal guns and 130 rounds of ammunition found in a house they occupied.
The operation continued in Grants Pen, North East St. Andrew, yesterday evening where a number of motorists were stopped and checked.
