Man caught with cache of firearms

(From right) Penang CID chief Senior Asst Comm Mazlan Kesah, Penang police chief Senior Deputy Comm Datuk Abdul Rahim Hanafi, his deputy Deputy Comm Datuk A. Thaiveegan and North Seberang Prai OCPD Asst Comm Abdul Rahman Ibrahim showing the shotgun and airguns during a press conference at state police contingent headquarters. WAN MOHIZAN WAN HUSSEIN THESTAR/6.1.2014

GEORGE TOWN: An ex-serviceman, said to be savvy in handling firearms, has been nabbed for possessing an arsenal of weapons without licence.

Acting on a tip-off, a police team stormed the house of the 53-year-old man in Permatang Buloh, Kepala Batas.