Man due to face Belfast Magistrates’ Court today on IRA membership and firearm offences

DETECTIVES from the PSNI’s Terrorist Investigation Unit have charged a man with a number of terrorist offences.

He was arrested on Thursday in a stop and search operation on the Stewartstown Road in West Belfast by a local district police team during an intelligence led probe.

The 52-year-old is charged with membership of a proscribed organisation, namely the Irish Republican Army.

He is further accused of possessing information likely to be of use to terrorists and possessing a firearm.

He will face Belfast Magistrates’ Court this morning, Saturday, April 13, for a first remand hearing.