Valencia family held with guns, ammo

A VALENCIA family of five, including two schoolboys, were held yesterday for possession of three firearms and three rounds of ammunition. They are expected to appear before a Sangre Grande Magistrate today. According to  reports, at around 12.30 pm, officers of the Sangre Grande CID led by Cpl Jaimungal went to a house on the Valencia Old Road where they executed a search warrant and found three 16 gauge homemade shotguns and three rounds of 16 gauge ammunition. A lorry loader, 48, his 25-year-old wife, sons aged 14 and 12 and a friend, 64, a retired technician of Santa Rosa Heights, Arima, were arrested.