A San­gre Grande man has been grant­ed $100,000 bail af­ter ap­pear­ing be­fore the South High Court on charges linked to a miss­ing po­lice firearm from the Ma­yaro po­lice sta­tion.

Azam Ali ap­peared be­fore Mas­ter Ray­don Dal­rym­ple-Watts yes­ter­day, charged with mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice, pos­ses­sion of a firearm and pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion.

The court grant­ed bail with sure­ty and or­dered Ali to re­main at his San­gre Grande home, sur­ren­der his pass­port with­in two days of se­cur­ing bail and re­frain from ob­tain­ing trav­el doc­u­ments.

The mat­ter is sched­uled for a sta­tus hear­ing on Oc­to­ber 29.

Po­lice said the charges stem from an in­ves­ti­ga­tion launched af­ter a Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) firearm and am­mu­ni­tion were re­port­ed miss­ing from the Ma­yaro po­lice sta­tion on Ju­ly 29.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors lat­er re­cov­ered the firearm, mag­a­zine and am­mu­ni­tion.

Ali is the sec­ond per­son charged in the mat­ter.

A po­lice con­sta­ble with nine months’ ser­vice was pre­vi­ous­ly charged with mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice.