A 26-year old man is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a Siparia Mag­is­trate on Au­gust 3rd, charged for pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, on Ju­ly 31st Sgt Ali, Cpl George and a par­ty of of­fi­cers of the South West­ern Di­vi­sion­al Task-Force went to Har­ris Vil­lage, South Oropouche, where a search war­rant for firearms and am­mu­ni­tion was ex­e­cut­ed on at the premise of the 26-year-old man.

The of­fi­cers searched the home and dis­cov­ered a bag con­tain­ing 14 white card­board box­es each con­tain­ing 20 rounds of 7.62 am­mu­ni­tion with a to­tal of 280 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion in a bed­room on the south­ern side of the up­stairs apart­ment.

The items were seized and Fer­nan­do Ame­lio Prestana was im­me­di­ate­ly ar­rest­ed and sub­se­quent­ly charged for pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion. En­quiries are con­tin­u­ing.