A Police intelligence-led operation was conducted at about 05:30 hrs today (Wednesday, July 24th, 2024), during which a total of 26 handguns and high-powered rifles, along with a cache of ammunition, were found.Six persons have also been arrested and are in custody, assisting with the investigation.
The Police team, led by a Superintendent, went to Lot 25 Sandy Babb Street, Kitty, at the home of Eon Fagundes, a 47-year-old Clothes Vendor, where a Search Warrant was executed. As the Police team entered the yard, Eon Fagundes was seen exiting the door of a flat wooden house in the yard with a side bag in his right hand.
He was confronted, and a search was carried out in the bag and one Sig Sauer Rifle and one magazine containing fourteen 9mm rounds of ammunition, one Polimore-80 9mm pistol without serial number and one magazine containing eight 9mm rounds of ammunition, one Spring Field Armory 45 pistol and four magazines, one containing five live .45 rounds of ammunition, and one Bravo gun holster.Fagundes was asked if he is the holder of a firearm license to carry the the said firearms and he said ‘no’.
He was told of the offences committed, arrested and cautioned.
A further search was carried out in the house, but nothing else was found. A black Nissan Juke vehicle (Registration number PVV 6472) was parked on Sandy Babb Street’s southern side, facing west, opposite Eon Fagundes’ house. The vehicle was well secured.
Eon Fagundes was asked who owned the car, and he said his daughter and his child-mother, but he was the person using the car. He gave Police the keys to the vehicle, and a search was then carried out in his presence and the following firearms, ammunition and magazines were found in a suitcase, one gulf bag and a haversack:*
Two Ruger-57 9mm pistols and one magazine containing forty (40) 9mm ammunition
** One FN-45 pistol and two (2) magazines containing thirty-eight (38) .45 ammunition
** One Smith and Wesson 9mm pistol and one (1) magazine
** One Berretta 9mm pistol and one (1) magazine
** One Spring Field Hellcat 9mm pistol and one (1) magazine
** One Canik 9mm pistol and one (1) magazine