Tag: gun crime
Couple avoid jail for help in gun case
(CNS): A couple who assisted the prosecution in securing the conviction against a local gunman avoided custodial sentences Tuesday for their own part in handling the weapon as a judge found that there was no intent in their involvement. Sean Dunbar and Ashley Terry had gone to the EverGlo bar in Bodden Town to celebrate […]
Fifteen guns and counting, police appeal to public
(CNS): The police have recovered 15 guns this year but it is clear there are still many more out there, and they are continuing their appeal to the public to help them find the weapons and gather intelligence on how the weapons are getting here. The latest firearm to be recovered by police is a […]
Double possession earns gunman 14 years
(CNS): Jose ‘Peto’ Sanchez (29) was given a 14-year jail term Tuesday following his second conviction for the illegal possession of a loaded unlicensed firearm. Sanchez was given an eight-year sentence for possessing a loaded illegal 9mm pistol when he fired the weapon in Cruz Lane last June, but he was given 14 years for […]
Status of adapted flare gun in question
(CNS): A 22-year-old man from East End has pleaded not guilty to possession of a loaded unlicensed firearm on the basis that the weapon in question was an adapted flare gun. The court heard that Antascio Terrell Rankine is charged with possessing a modified signal pistol loaded with 12 gauge cartridges, but it has not […]
Sibling killers to serve over 30 years in jail
(CNS): Justin D’Angelo Ramoon (25) was given a 35-year life sentence tariff Monday for the execution style killing of Jason Powery in 2015. His older brother, Osbourne Wilfred Douglas (30), who supplied the gun and drove the getaway car, was handed a 34-year term in the first case of a gang-related fatal shooting where a […]
‘Guns are for cowards’ judge tells convicted man
(CNS): Justice Dame Linda Dobbs told Jonathan Welcome that guns are for cowards, as she handed down a six-year jail term Thursday. The 23-year-old Bodden Town man was convicted of possession of an imitation firearm with intent to resist arrest by a jury Wednesday and was sentenced today. With what she described as an “unenviable” […]
Fleeing gunman convicted by jury
(CNS): It took a jury just over an hour to convict a 23-year-old man from Bodden Town of possession of an imitation weapon with intent to resist arrest. After hearing evidence and closing arguments from lawyers Tuesday, the jury deliberated for a brief period Wednesday morning before finding Jonathan Samuel Welcome guilty as charged. No […]
Suspect claims mistaken identity in gun chase
(CNS): A 23-year-old man from Bodden Town has denied that he was the man police say pointed a gun at them and members of the community in April, when he fled after being stopped by armed officers. When he appeared in the dock Tuesday, Jonathan Welcome told a jury he was not the man that […]
Courts face mounting gun cases
(CNS): Four people appeared in court Friday facing firearms charges and other offences in a mounting list of gun cases reaching the courts. Although legislators introduced a ten-year mandatory minimum sentence more than a decade ago, gun crime has continued to increase. The Grand Court’s criminal docket is dominated by illegal firearms cases, despite the hefty […]
Gun case thrown out after poor police probe
(CNS): A case against two men charged with possession of a loaded unlicensed gun was thrown out by a judge Wednesday after the crown failed to present enough evidence to support a guilty verdict. Even though a Browning 9-mm semi-automatic pistol, loaded with seven rounds of ammunition, was found by police officers in a car […]
CCTV reveals suspect in GT murder
(CNS): Police investigating the murder of Damean Dwayne Seymour are looking for a suspect wearing a long-sleeved, white shirt and dark pants who was spotted on CCTV running from the scene on Monday. In an appeal for witnesses following the daylight shooting of Seymour, a.k.a ‘Deebo’, in central George Town at around 11:40am yesterday on […]
