A 26-year-old Care­nage man was wound­ed in a shoot-out with po­lice near his home on Tues­day night. The sus­pect, of Seav­iew Hill, Care­nage, re­mained ward­ed un­der po­lice guard at the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal up to late yes­ter­day. He was shot in the leg, but doc­tors say the wound is not life-threat­en­ing.

Around 10.45 pm, res­i­dents of Schuller Street, Pt Cumana, Care­nage re­port­ed that a gun­man was shoot­ing in the air while walk­ing down their street. Of­fi­cers from the West­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force re­spond­ed and con­front­ed him. He re­port­ed­ly point­ed his gun in their di­rec­tion, so po­lice dis­armed him by shoot­ing him in the leg be­fore tak­ing him to hos­pi­tal.

The po­lice found an il­le­gal Smith and Wes­son 9 mm pis­tol along with 13 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion on the sus­pect. When he is dis­charged from hos­pi­tal the sus­pect is ex­pect­ed to be charged with pos­ses­sion of the il­le­gal weapon and am­mu­ni­tion, as well as shoot­ing with in­tent. Po­lice said he did not of­fer any rea­son for his ran­dom shoot­ing spree to in­ves­ti­ga­tors.

Mean­while, po­lice yes­ter­day seized more than five ki­los of mar­i­jua­na at Cameron Hill in Mar­aval. Around 4.45 am Mar­aval po­lice were on pa­trol at Cameron Hill when they saw a large plas­tic bag in the bush.

They found it con­tained five con­crete bricks in which bags of com­pressed mar­i­jua­na were hid­den. The nar­cotics have a street val­ue of more than $50,000. Sgt Bir­bal and Cpl San­cho were in­volved in the re­cov­ery of the drugs. (DA)