Tag: gun possession

Expat walks free despite importing 3 unlicensed guns

Expat walks free despite importing 3 unlicensed guns

| 18/03/2024 | 116 Comments

(CNS): Prosecutors have dropped the case against Anton Parygin (45), a Canadian-Israeli-Russian citizen who arrived in the Cayman Islands in early 2022 with three unlicensed guns, despite being told by the police that he could not lawfully bring the weapons here until he had secured licences. In court on Friday, the crown officially stopped the […]

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Police chase down suspect in gas station robbery

Police chase down suspect in gas station robbery

| 12/03/2024

(CNS) UPDATED: Police have now charged the 21-year-old man from Bodden Town who was arrested Saturday night after officers had chased him down around 8pm within minutes of an armed robbery at Mostyn’s Gas Station on Bodden Town Road. He was expected to appear in court Tuesday.

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One charged in gang-related targeted patrols

One charged in gang-related targeted patrols

| 11/03/2024

(CNS): A 26-year-old man from George Town has been charged with two counts of possession of an unlicensed firearm after police stopped and searched a car in George Town on Friday, 8 March. According to the RCIPS, shortly after 1:00pm, officers had cause to stop a vehicle travelling on Shedden Road, driven by a lone […]

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Man charged with unlicensed gun possession for air rifle

Man charged with unlicensed gun possession for air rifle

| 08/03/2024

(CNS): A 35-year-old Bodden Town man has been charged with the possession of an unlicensed firearm after the police found an air rifle during a search of his home. The police said they responded to a domestic incident on Friday, 1 March, in response to a report that a man had assaulted a woman known […]

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Guns imported through legal ‘loophole’, court finds

Guns imported through legal ‘loophole’, court finds

| 12/02/2024

(CNS): The crown’s case against Anton Parygin (45), a Russian national with both Canadian and Israeli citizenship, hit shaky ground this week ahead of his scheduled trial. Parygin, who brought three unlicensed guns with him when he moved to the Cayman Islands for work, faces several charges relating to importing and possessing illegal weapons, but […]

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Soto dodges conviction in gun possession case

Soto dodges conviction in gun possession case

| 09/02/2024 | 13 Comments

(CNS): Eric Brian Williams Soto (23), who was recently convicted of manslaughter in the 2022 shooting death of Harry Elliott (63), was acquitted last month of illegal gun charges in relation to another incident. Defence attorney Keith Myers made a successful application during a jury trial that there was no case to answer because the […]

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Suspect arrested after throwing gun out of car window

Suspect arrested after throwing gun out of car window

| 12/01/2024

(CNS): A 29-year-old man from Bodden Town was arrested after police officers saw him throw a bag, later found to contain a gun, from the vehicle he was driving while he was being pursued by a police vehicle. According to the RCIPS, shortly after 3:50pm on Wednesday, 10 January, officers “had cause to stop a […]

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Double murder trial delayed over forensic evidence

Double murder trial delayed over forensic evidence

| 11/01/2024

(CNS): Wayne Bellafonte Jr (32), from North Side, who was due to stand trial later this month for the murder of both Mark Andre Ebanks (36) and Eldon Charles Walton (55) in a drive-by shooting back in July 2021, has had the case postponed for at least the third time until later this year. Bellafonte’s lawyers […]

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GT man arrested after car shot up and gun found

GT man arrested after car shot up and gun found

| 01/12/2023

(CNS): A 39-year-old man from George Town was arrested Monday over the possession of an illegal gun after a vehicle was shot up on Sunday night in Eastern Avenue, George Town. Police from the Firearm Response Unit attended an undisclosed residential location at about 9:30pm as a result of illegal activities involving a gun. After […]

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Gun possession lands local man seven years in jail

Gun possession lands local man seven years in jail

| 25/10/2023 | 7 Comments

(CNS): Eddie Marlon Ebanks (42) was sentenced on Wednesday for the possession of an unlicensed firearm and received the mandatory minimum sentence of seven years in connection with a 9mm Luger pistol found in a drawer in his bedroom last summer. Police had executed a search warrant at Ebanks’ workplace and his home in Old […]

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Fisherman facing trial over drugs and gun

Fisherman facing trial over drugs and gun

| 16/10/2023

(CNS): Nulman Ivan Alcantara Santos will stand trial next year, having pleaded not guilty to allegations that he tried to smuggle over 6lbs of cocaine into Cayman and possessed an unlicensed 9mm Glock pistol and five rounds of ammunition. Alcantara was arrested in August after a Customs and Border Control operation aboard a commercial fishing […]

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