Detectives charge man with a number firearm offences in Ballyclare

DETECTIVES have charged a 42-year-old man with firearms offences.

He was arrested Saturday evening following a report of an altercation between a number of people in the Rashee Park area of Ballyclare.

However, when police arrived they found no one fighting.

But police did spot a man in possession of a firearm.

He was arrested a short time later and and taken in for questioning.

Detectives from Newtownabbey CID charged him on Sunday night with four offences including possession of a firearm in suspicious circumstances.

The man was released on police bail to face Belfast Magistrates’ Court on Friday, December 20.