SLR semi automatic firearm with ammunition and drugs seized by police
Police officers attached to Richfond and Dennery police stations conducted an operation at Grande Ravine, Dennery on Saturday, during which drugs and a firearm were seized.
A search warrant was executed on a house in the area and a SLR semi automatic firearm with 12 rounds of ammunition was recovered, along with approximately 35 kilos of compressed marijuana.
Forty-three-year-old Nicholas Alexander also known as Rome, of Grande Ravine was arrested and charged for the offences of possession of an unlicensed firearm, possession of ammunition, possession of a controlled drug and possession with the intent to supply a controlled drug.
He appeared before the Second District Court in Dennery today.