St. Martin News Network - Police Confiscated over 30 Illegal Firearms in the Past Three Months.

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Philipsburg:--- In recent months the police have issued a number of calls to the general public asking that they cooperate with police and lead them to where they could remove illegal firearms from the streets of St. Maarten. In a previous interview, Chief Prosecutor Hans Mos said some people had tipped off the police on where to find some illegal firearms. Mos said in each case the police acted and they did find illegal weapons. He urged the community of St. Maarten to start trusting the police and continue providing information to law enforcement so that they could rid the streets of illegal weapons.
Head of the Detective Department Denise Jacob confirmed on Monday during an interview with SMN News that the police did confiscate over 30 illegal weapons within a three month time span. "I can say we did confiscate more than 30 guns from November 2011 to January 2012, that does not include those confiscated during the Vesuvius investigation and those that were placed on the Insel Air Flight," Jacob said.

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