Police within the Bahamas arrested eight People and seized weapons, ammunition and a “appreciable sum of undeclared money” in a multiagency operation on Tuesday.
The Royal Bahamas Police Power said in a news release that officers from the Alice City Police Station labored with the Bahamas Customs Division to look a vessel docked at a port on Bimini, a series of western islands. The officers had been “performing on intelligence,” the RBPF stated, however they didn’t specify what info that included.
The officers discovered three “high-powered weapons” and 11 different firearms, in addition to the undeclared money and a “substantial high quality of ammunition” on the boat, police stated.
The ten occupants aboard the boat — eight People, one South African and one Guyanese individual — had been taken into custody, the RBPF stated. These arrested ranged in age from 21 to 62 years outdated. The RBPF didn’t determine them. The weapons, cash and ammunition had been confiscated.
The investigation stays ongoing, police stated. The RBPF didn’t specify what the objective of the investigation is or if extra arrests are anticipated. The company didn’t instantly reply to a request for extra particulars from CBS Information.
Bimini is the westernmost a part of the Bahamas and the nation’s closest level to the mainland United States. Alice City is the area’s capital.
