A 27-year-old Sangre Grande man has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment with hard labour for having a homemade shotgun and ammunition.

Jameel "Homes" Snaggs, who lives at Sycamore Drive, Ojoe Road, faced Sangre Grande magistrate Cheron Raphael on Wednesday, when she passed the sentence.

On Thursday, a police release said officers searched Snaggs’ home on Monday, having obtained a warrant to do so.

They found the shotgun, six rounds of .45 ammunition, two rounds of 5.56 ammunition, one round of .38 ammunition, and one 12-gauge cartridge.

PC Hamilton of the Northern Division Task Force (NDTF) Area East arrested and charged him.