Personnel from the Caguas area Drug Division seized firearms, magazines, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and controlled substances on Wednesday, November 11, in Cayey, as part of a work plan responding to recent violence reported in the town, Colonel Carlos Cruz, auxiliary superintendent of Special Operations (SAOE), said. In the Jardines de Montellano housing project in Cayey, the team intervened at a drug point, seized a Kia Seltos and arrested a 25-year-old shooter along with three men aged 38 to 57; a bag of marijuana was seized from them.
In a raid in the El Polvorín neighborhood of Cayey, a 35-year-old man with no criminal record was arrested and, despite holding a gun license, a clandestine mini-arsenal was seized from him: two multicaliber rifles, a shotgun, three Glock pistols in .40, .380 and 9 millimeter, 23 magazines of different calibers (11 for long guns), two drums and 689 rounds of ammunition. Also seized were $89 in cash, 28 bags of cocaine, five decks of heroin, three bags of fentanyl, a marijuana bud, 260 controlled-medication pills and 63 of the opioid buprenorphine.
Agents seized a Mitsubishi Lancer. Near the community, $72 in cash, 41 crack capsules, 20 bags of cocaine, nine pieces of fentanyl and the same amount of marijuana were found. Sergeants Juan De Dios Quintero Quintero and Luis Gómez supervised the operation.