Third person charged with importing firearms

A THIRD PERSON has now been charged in connection with five firearms found in a barrel at the Bridgetown Port.

Akem Marvon Waithe, 25, of Greens, St George, was charged with conspiracy to import firearms sometime between November 1 and December 5 last year. 

Waithe was remanded to HMP Dodds when he appeared before Magistrate Wayne Clarke in the District ‘A’ Magistrate Court on Saturday.

Already on remand are Skye Yasmin Lecreta Murray, 29, of Perry Gap, Roebuck Street, St Michael and 50-year-old Colin Alfonso Wooding of Green Hill Drive, Silver Hill, Christ Church.

Waithe, Wooding and Murray are jointly scheduled to return to court on February 9. (PR/SAT)