A man iden­ti­fied on­ly as Ri­car­do was killed by po­lice on Sun­day, af­ter a con­fronta­tion with of­fi­cers who were at­tempt­ing to ar­rest him for be­ing in pos­ses­sion of an igua­na dur­ing the closed hunt­ing sea­son.

Of­fi­cers of the Ma­yaro CID were on mo­bile pa­trol when they re­spond­ed to a re­port of an in­trud­er on the com­pound of Tuck­er En­er­gy Ser­vices Ltd, New Lands Vil­lage, Ma­yaro, who was al­leged­ly steal­ing cop­per.

Checks were made of the com­pound but the in­trud­er was not found.