Three arrested, stolen firearm and ammo recovered

“Emanuel admitted that he and Khan broke into Hack’s house and stole Hack’s firearm and ammunition. Emanuel related that after the robbery, Khan took away the firearm from him, along with some of the ammunition,” Police Headquarters said.

Subsequently, Police said Khan took investigators to a small clump of bushes behind his Yarrowkabra home.

There, he pointed them to a black plastic bag containing one Astra .38 revolver with three matching rounds in the barrel.

There were also two spent shells along with forty-nine live .38 rounds of ammunition which were in an ammunition box, belonging to Hack, Police said.

Police said the suspects were further questioned after which Khan took detectives to the home of Alwyn James, a 27-year-old taxi driver of Yarrowkabra, where he pointed out an area where the ammunition was buried.

“The area was dug up and thirty-one twelve-gauge cartridges were found in a black plastic bucket,” Police noted.

The trio remains in custody and is assisting with the investigation.