A jury yesterday found a 21-year-old man not guilty of possessing a firearm.

Jason Devon Dill walked from Supreme Court after the jury found him not guilty of possessing a semi-automatic pistol without a licence, carrying six live rounds of ammunition without a licence and seriously assaulting a Police officer while he was in the execution of his duty.

However the jury did find Dill guilty of a charge of violently resisting arrest.

After the verdict a clearly relieved Dill initially refused to speak to , but later said: ?I did nothing wrong. Words cannot express how I feel.?

During the trial the prosecution argued that the gun and ammunition were found after Dill got into a struggle with Police when they attempted to pull over the motorcycle he was riding.

Det. Con. Christopher Sabean testified that after Dill was pulled over he went to the front of the defendant?s bike and said, ?stop,? but the rider tried to veer around him, before heading straight at him.

During the trial, the court was told there was a struggle and the defendant was arrested. Dill?s pillion passenger fled down a nearby alley after the scuffle, the jury was told.

Another prosecution witness, Insp. Nicholas Pedro, testified that he had assisted with Dill?s arrest and that when detectives lifted him from the ground a 9mm firearm with a stainless magazine at the front was found underneath the defendant. Defence lawyer Charles Richardson suggested to the Police officers during cross-examination that since the pillion passenger had run away after the struggle, Police had to blame the defendant for possessing the gun ? ?because there was no one else there?. A suggestion the officers denied.

The Police also rejected a suggestion from the defence attorney that the pillion passenger could have dropped the gun. The jury also heard no fingerprints were found on the gun, its magazine or the bullets that were recovered at the scene.

Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves, when passing sentence on the violently resisting arrest conviction, noted that Dill had a clean record, was a first time offender and therefore would be treated as such.

He then fined Dill $1,000 and ordered the fine to be paid within a month. If Dill fails to pay the fine he will be jailed for three months.