He picked the wrong time to be out on the road.
And Deroy Antoine Nicholls is now awaiting sentencing after he admitted that police caught him with a pipe gun and three bullets, during the St John Carnival more than four years ago.
Nicholls, 21, of French Village, St Peter, was in the No. 2 Supreme Court recently where he pleaded guilty to the January 21, 2013 offences.
Justice Michelle Weekes remanded the gunman to HMP Dodds until December 14 when he will return to hear the contents of a pre-sentencing report.
Senior Crown Counsel Olivia Davis, who outlined the evidence, said Constable Cecil Taylor and Barbados Defence Force soldiers were patrolling along Gall Hill Main Road, St John, during the carnival when they saw Nicholls, who was smoking a spliff.
The lawman went to him about the spliff but Nicholls responded: “What you talking ’bout, officer?” He ran off but was caught and subdued after he tripped and fell.
The haversack he was carrying was searched and a pipe gun, dismantled in two parts, and three bullets found.
When he was asked to account for having it, he told police: “The gun and the shots I find in a bag.”
He was arrested and taken to District “C” Police Station, where he declined to have an attorney and admitted that the gun and bullets were his.
In a statement, which Nicholls penned himself, he said “things” became hard after his father died.
The gunman said that on the day he was caught, he was on his way to his mother’s house when he stopped to relieve his bladder in some bushes.
“I see a white plastic bag and I check it and see the gun and the shots and I put them in my bag. I continued walking and I got a drop to Warrens . . . and then I get a drop up to St John.
“When I get out of the car because of the carnival, I was smoking weed. When the police see me I run and they check and take my bag from me,” the statement continued, adding that was when lawmen found the pipe gun and bullets. (HLE)