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Seven years for rifle man

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A 25-YEAR-OLD MAN who pleaded guilty to having a .22 long-range rifle and four rounds of ammunition was sentenced to seven years in prison yesterday.

Shamar Shane Devoe Thomas of 3rd Avenue, Rockley, Christ Church, admitted to the illegal possession charges back on November 23, 2015, in the No. 5 Supreme Court.

Acting Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Anthony Blackman prosecuted the matter while Justice Jacqueline Cornelius presided.

Details indicate that on April 19, 2013, police responded to a report of three men trying to break into a house in Ashford, St Thomas. When the police arrived they saw three men fleeing the scene. (TKS)

Please read the full story in today’s Weekend Nation, or in the eNATION edition.

 

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