Police investigators are continuing to question 14 persons, including six females, who were arrested in simultaneous operations across four St James communities last Friday.
According to reports from the Anti-Lottery Scam Task Force, the operations began at about 5 a.m. in the communities of Lilliput, Rose Heights, Bogue Hill and Granville, all in St James.
Members of the task force were assisted by personnel from the Mobile Reserve, the Jamaica Defence Force and the Area One Fraud Squad.
other items seized as well
One 9-mm Browning pistol, with its serial number erased and loaded with a magazine containing 13 9-mm rounds, was seized at premises in Rose Heights.
The five occupants were arrested and are to be interviewed this week with the aim of laying charges against them.
The other nine persons were arrested at various locations and they, too, are to be interviewed in the coming days.
Also seized during the operations were US$8,000, J$180,000, £10, several documents, laptops, cellular phones, television sets, a magic jack, SIM cards, three motor cars, a wrecker and a quantity of ganja.
