Investigators assigned to the St. Catherine South Police Division have seized an M16 rifle and rounds of ammunition following a snap raid in Central Village this morning.

Reports indicate that around at 10:45 a.m., investigators responded to information about a possible gun find within the parameter.

Upon arrival of the lawmen, several men ran from the vicinity. Following this, lawmen commenced a search of the parameter and an M16 rifle along with one magazine and twenty-five 5.56 cartridges were seized.

This seizure comes days after five high powered weapons were seized in St. James.

The seizure yielded one rifle, one Anderson multicaliber rifle, an AR 15 multi caliber rifle, a Smith and Wesson SD9VE pistol, one magazine containing sixteen 9-millimeter rounds of ammunition, three M-16 magazines with one hundred 5.56mm rounds eighty-nine 5.56-millimeter rounds, thirty-nine 9millimeter live rounds and one Sarsilmaz SAR pistol with a magazine containing sixteen 9-milimeter rounds of ammunition.

So far , no arrests have been made where both seizures are concerned.