A 55-year-old man was arrested yesterday for burglaries in homes and possession of prohibited weapons, in the municipality of Loulé, district of Faro, with 18 weapons seized from him, the GNR reported on 20 March.

In a statement, this security force states that the suspect was identified and located as part of an investigation related to the occurrence of multiple thefts in homes in that Algarve municipality.

During the operation, soldiers from the National Republican Guard (GNR) carried out two searches, one at a house and another in a vehicle.

At the end of the intervention, the suspect was arrested and several objects were seized, including some prohibited weapons: two shotguns, a concealed shotgun, two pistols, a revolver, two air pistols, three air rifles, three machetes, a homemade spear, a defense aerosol, an automatic opening knife, a taser and 583 rounds of ammunition.

The case was sent to the Loulé Judicial Court.

The operation was carried out by the GNR's Salir Territorial Post and was supported by the Public Order Intervention Group (POIG) of the Intervention Unit (IU) and the Intervention Detachment (ID) of Faro.