Chester Sam­bra­no

An Arou­ca man is as­sist­ing po­lice with their in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the dis­cov­ery of a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion.

The TTPS said around 1.20 am on Sun­day, Arou­ca Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment of­fi­cers were on mo­bile pa­trol pro­ceed­ing in a norther­ly di­rec­tion along Thomas Trace, Arou­ca, when they had cause to stop near to an aban­doned struc­ture where three men were ob­served run­ning away in an east­er­ly di­rec­tion.

Of­fi­cers ob­serv­ing the sus­pi­cious be­hav­iour, gave chase through the aban­doned struc­ture, where two of the men made their es­cape by jump­ing over a gate.

A 23-year-old man, of Rail­way Road Ex­ten­sion, Arou­ca was ap­pre­hend­ed, the of­fi­cers per­formed a search of the man and al­leged­ly dis­cov­ered a brown Tau­rus G2C pis­tol fit­ted with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing eight rounds of nine-mil­lime­tre am­mu­ni­tion.

PC Scott is con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.