Popular Morant Bay, St Thomas businessman Ludlow McQuinnie and two other men, a father and son, have been detained for breaches of the Firearms Act.

This following a series of operations in the parish in which four illegal firearms were seized.

Police said the series of events began shortly after 1 a.m. when the cops searched the home of 25-year-old Mark Tomlinson in Wilmington and found a 9mm Tech Nine sub-machine gun and a .38 revolver.

Investigations led the lawmen to the home of his 50-year-old father, Frank, where they found a 12-guage shotgun. While interrogating the older Tomlinson, investigators discovered that the firearm belonged to McQuinnie.

That discovery led the police to carry out an operation at McQuin-nies's home in Highbury, near Morant Bay. His personal 9mm Beretta pistol, nineteen 9mm rounds and a quantity of 12-gauge cartridges were seized.

Preliminary checks on that firearm revealed that McQuinnie had not renewed the licence for it.

Senior detectives at the Morant Bay police say Tomlinson and his son will be charged for illegal possession of firearm and ammunition.

The businessman also faces similar charges, plus the additional charge of aiding and abetting the offence of illegal possession of firearm.

This charge is as a result of his personal shotgun being found in the possession of the father.