A 39-year-old man, who was held with a gun in Orop­une Gar­dens, Pi­ar­co, at­tempt­ed to ex­plain his sit­u­a­tion to po­lice be­fore be­ing ar­rest­ed on Sat­ur­day night.

Po­lice said a team of of­fi­cers from the North-Cen­tral Di­vi­sion and sol­diers were on pa­trol along Fourth Av­enue around 9.20 pm, when they saw a man with a white sling bag walk­ing in­to a near­by park­ing lot.

Po­lice stopped and searched the man and found a re­volver with six rounds of am­mu­ni­tion.

On find­ing the weapon, the man re­port­ed­ly told po­lice, “Of­fi­cer, I is not no crim­i­nal, I not on no bad­ness. I just have my thing to pro­tect my­self and my fam­i­ly.”

The man, who is from Cu­mu­to, was ar­rest­ed and tak­en to the Arou­ca Po­lice Sta­tion.