A 29-year-old man who plead­ed not guilty to sev­er­al charges aris­ing out of an al­leged May 11th shoot­ing in­ci­dent in San­gre Grande was on Tues­day grant­ed $375k bail with a sure­ty.

Mic­ah Cadette, al­so known as ‘Pop­caan,’ of Wal­len­vale, Guaico, San­gre Grande, was grant­ed bail by a San­gre Grande mag­is­trate on the charges of Dis­charg­ing a Firearm With­in 40 Me­tres of a Road­way, Pos­ses­sion of a Firearm and Pos­ses­sion of Am­mu­ni­tion.

Cadette will reap­pear be­fore the court on June 8th, 2023, to an­swer the charges.

He was ar­rest­ed and charged on May 16th by PC Rod­ney of the San­gre Grande Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment (CID) who con­duct­ed en­quiries in­to the re­port.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, at 7 am on May 11th, po­lice of­fi­cers at­tached to the East­ern Di­vi­sion Emer­gency Re­sponse Pa­trol, Task Force and San­gre Grande CID re­spond­ed to a re­port of shoot­ing with in­tent at Gilkes Street, San­gre Grande.

Up­on ar­rival, po­lice learned that two men had an ar­gu­ment in which one of the men was slapped in the face and lat­er re­ceived threats by the oth­er.

Po­lice were told the al­leged per­pe­tra­tor left and lat­er re­turned to the scene bran­dish­ing a firearm.

The man, fear­ful for his life, be­gan run­ning fol­low­ing which he heard one loud ex­plo­sion. He man­aged to es­cape and lat­er con­tact­ed the po­lice.

Crime scene in­ves­ti­ga­tors lat­er processed the scene and en­quiries cul­mi­nat­ed in the ar­rest of the 29-year-old sus­pect who was ap­pre­hend­ed fol­low­ing a raid at his home.