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A Laven­tille man who was ar­rest­ed on Mon­day night dur­ing a road­block ex­er­cise in San­ta Cruz for dri­ving with­out a per­mit and in­sur­ance was al­so charged with firearm pos­ses­sion af­ter of­fi­cers found the weapon in a bag un­der the front seat.

The sus­pect’s sev­en-year-old son who was in the car at the time, was al­so tak­en to the po­lice sta­tion where he was lat­er col­lect­ed by rel­a­tives.

Po­lice said the 35-year-old man from Pash­ley Street, Laven­tille, was de­tained dur­ing the op­er­a­tion which was car­ried out be­tween 10 am and 2 pm on March 31.