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'Sizzla' held in gun, ammunition find

By GLENROY SINCLAIR, Staff Reporter

Deejay Miguel 'Sizzla' Collins holds his hands high as he is escorted by the members of a joint JDF/Operation Kingfish/Anti-Crime and Mobile Reserve unit which seized 13 high-powered weapons and several rounds of ammunition in Judgement Yard, August Town yesterday. - Norman Grindley

DEEJAY MIGUEL 'SIZZLA' Collins was one of 33 persons held in connection with a find of 13 high-powered guns and ammunition in August Town yesterday.

The weapons were discovered beneath the earth of a large fowl coop, located in a river bed about 120 metres from the August Town main road. The Police said the area is known as 'Sizzla Corner'.

In recent months, August Town has been a hotbed of criminal activity. This is the second major gun find in the August Town community in less than a month. About two weeks ago, the police found three handguns in that community.

The guns found included: six AK-47 rifles, three sniper rifles, one M-16 rifle, two shotguns, one Intratec-Nine sub-machine gun, 58 assorted rounds of amunition, 11 magazines and a silencer which was fitted to the M-16 rifle, two ballistic vests and two AK-47 butt stocks. There was also a small telescopic lens that was fitted to the Intratec Nine.

"This has an estimated street value of close to $2-million," said Senior Superintendent Donald Pusey who led yesterday's operation.

Corporal Troy Anderson of the Constabulary Communication Network said the exercise was a joint operation between Operation Kingfish, the Special Anti-Crime Task Force, the Jamaica Defence Force and Mobile Reserve, which numbered more than 115 personnel.