Couple held with firearm

Police from Northern Division went to a house at Edna Hill at 3 am, where they executed a search warrant on the owner of the property.

During a search, the officers found and seized a Smith and Wesson semi-automatoc pistol and 21 rounds of ammunition of nine-millimetre calibre.

The couple, a 35-year-old man and a 44-year-old woman, was detained and charged on the weekend.

They have since appeared before an Arima magistrate and the case adjourned.

The firearm has since been sent to the Forensic Science Centre in St James for ballistics test to see if it was used in recent criminal acts.