Two prohibited weapons confiscated

In other police news, two very lethal weapons have been taken off the streets. On Friday night in Belize City a young man fled on seeing a police patrol and was seen throwing an object away. It turned out to be a Tech nine automatic with eight bullets. Eighteen-year-old Emerson Young of Mahogany Street has been charged with keeping a prohibited firearm and unlicensed ammunition. Meanwhile, on the same night in the nation’s capital, a mobile patrol searched a young man with a backpack only to discover a sawed off sixteen gauge shotgun and four shells inside. Police arrested twenty-year-old Jose Ruiz of San Martin Village and charged him, like Young, with possession of a prohibited weapon and unlicensed ammunition.