POLICE swooped on a field in Weymouth after two youths were spotted with a gun.
Officers and the Dorset Police helicopter were alerted to an area behind the New Look factory in Mercery Road after a member of the public raised the alarm late yesterday afternoon.
Police used the helicopter's loud hailer to contact to the youths.
A police spokesman said the youths, both from Weymouth, in possession of a .22 air rifle, co-operated and handed over the weapon.
The youths were reported for related offences but were not held by police.
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