A 45-YEAR-OLD man has been arrested in connection with a gun attack on police earlier this month.
High-profile republicans Alex McCrory and Harry Fitzsimmons have already been charged in connection with the attack in north Belfast on December 5, in which a convoy of police vehicles came under automatic gunfire on Crumlin Road.
The man was last night being held at Antrim Serious Crime Suite. Properties were also searched in Ardoyne in north Belfast yesterday by police investigating dissident republican activity.
Meanwhile, police are continuing to question two teenagers arrested in south Armagh.
The 19-year-old man and 18-year-old woman were arrested at a house just outside Forkhill on Wednesday. Items including a grinder and a quantity of fertiliser and sugar have been taken away for examination.
A 43-year-old man arrested by gardai in Dundalk, Co Louth, as part of the same operation, was still being questioned at Drogheda station.
It was reported yesterday that gardai and the PSNI may have foiled a dissident republican plan to launch a massive bomb attack in the north.
According to security sources, the attack was planned for Belfast.