A Pembroke teenager charged with possession of a loaded firearm took the stand in Supreme Court yesterday, claiming he was unaware that the weapon was hidden just yards from a nightclub he had visited.Dameko Dublin, 19, was arrested in January 2012 — two months after a loaded Smith & Wesson revolver and five rounds of ammunition were discovered by police near the former Clay House Inn on North Shore Road in Devonshire. The gun, which was wrapped in a sock, had been placed on top of a rear wheel of a car parked a few yards from the abandoned building located near the Gravity nightclub.The prosecution maintains that the gun was stashed there by Mr Dublin and others in his “crew” before they entered the Gravity nightclub, where they knew they would be frisked by security staff.When police units, responding to an unrelated disturbance at the club, arrived on the scene they spotted two of Mr Dublin’s friends near the parked car acting suspiciously and both men were arrested. The gun was found shortly after, although Mr Dublin was not linked to the weapon until DNA test results were obtained weeks later.In Supreme Court yesterday, the jury was shown CCTV footage taken outside the Gravity club shortly after it closed its doors at around 2am on November 5.Mr Dublin was seen walking away from the club entrance where clubgoers were still congregating, and heading towards the old Clay House Inn where Darrion Simons and another friend had been arrested.“The reason why you were interested in what was happening at Clay House Inn — even before you knew who had been arrested — was because you knew your gun was on that site, a gun that had your DNA on it,” prosecutor Carrington Mahoney told the defendant.“That is why you were so agitated, looking around, looking so busy and perplexed. You knew you had fouled up. You knew the gun was up there and that’s why you were walking around the parking lot like a chicken without its head.”Mr Dublin repeatedly denied the claim, saying that he was intoxicated at the time and was just being “pokey”.And he maintained that he only stayed in the area after identifying his friend Mr Simons as one of the men being held by police.“I was there because I had just discovered that my friend had been arrested. I wanted to help in any way possible — to be there for support,” Mr Dublin said.“I am not saying it was none of my business — I have an interest in Darrion Simons.”Earlier in proceedings, the Court heard that Mr Dublin’s DNA was discovered on the weapon.But under cross-examination, Mr Dublin explained that he frequently spent time at the home of Mr Simons, particularly before the pair went out to socialise, and had on occasion borrowed his socks.Mr Dublin also insisted that he was not running from police when he was finally arrested at the Somerset Cricket Club in January 2012.“I ran, but not from the police. I wasn’t running from nobody,” he said.When asked why he told the arresting officer that he had been planning to turn himself in, Mr Dublin replied that he had been informed that the police were looking for him and had been willing to go to a police station until his lawyer advised against it.The case continues today.