Three men were ar­rest­ed and a mi­ni-Uzi sub­ma­chine gun seized by of­fi­cers of the North­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force, Cen­tral, fol­low­ing a high-speed chase and po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing in­ci­dent in the Arou­ca dis­trict.

The in­ci­dent oc­curred on Tues­day.

Po­lice say of­fi­cers were on mo­bile pa­trol around 1:30 pm on Tues­day 12th Feb­ru­ary, 2019, when they re­ceived in­for­ma­tion of men armed with guns in the Arou­ca dis­trict.

The of­fi­cers pro­ceed­ed to the lo­ca­tion and ob­served a blue Nis­san Almera mo­tor ve­hi­cle with four male oc­cu­pants, pro­ceed­ing along Gold­en Grove Road, Arou­ca.

When the of­fi­cers at­tempt­ed to in­ter­cept the ve­hi­cle, it sped off and a chase en­sued which end­ed at the cor­ner of the East­ern Main Road and Wa­ter­loo Road.

As the Almera came to a stop, a man ex­it­ed the ve­hi­cle and point­ed a firearm at the of­fi­cers and fired sev­er­al shots at them.

The of­fi­cers sub­se­quent­ly re­turned fire in the di­rec­tion of the gun­man who ran off and es­caped.

The oth­er three men in the ve­hi­cle; a 24-year-old and a 21-year-old both of Ari­ma and a 21-year-old of Pi­ar­co were ar­rest­ed and a search of the ve­hi­cle con­duct­ed.

The search re­sult­ed in the mi­ni-Uzi firearm loaded with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing 45 rounds of 9mm am­mu­ni­tion, be­ing dis­cov­ered hid­den be­tween the front pas­sen­ger seat and the front cen­ter con­sole of the ve­hi­cle.