MIAMI – A United States federal judge has jailed a Jamaican man for six months for transporting bullet parts that exploded at Miami International Airport last December.
US District Judge Paul Huck imposed the sentence on Orville Braham, 38. He had faced three years in jail.Huck reduced the sentence because “nobody got hurt”.
Bullet primers had exploded inside a checked bag belonging to Braham on an American Airlines flight.
Primers are the part of the bullet that ignites the gunpowder enclosed inside of it. (CMC)
Six years for bullet parts
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