Some young people seem to think there is “treasure” in having an illegal firearm.
So said Justice Randall Worrell as he ordered Ramon Jamal Payne to pay a total of $15 000 in fines in six months when he reappeared in the No. 2 Supreme Court.
Payne, of Boscobel, St Peter, had pleaded guilty, at an earlier Session of the Continuous Sittings, to having a 9 mm pistol and nine rounds of ammunition on April 25, 2017.
The matter was prosecuted by Senior Crown Counsel Olivia Davis, while attorney Angella Mitchell-Gittens represented the self-confessed gunman. (HLE)
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