By PAVEL BAILEY
Tribune Court Reporter
pbailey@tribunemedia.net
A MAN was sentenced to two and a half years in prison after he pleaded guilty to having a loaded gun in his car.
Lusconder Jean, 21, and Pedro Knowles, 23, stood before Magistrate Samuel McKinney on shared charges of possession of an unlicensed firearm and possession of ammunition. Both accused faced additional separate charges of possession of ammunition.
On February 13 at around 11pm on West Bay Street, near Baha Mar, police stopped the accused in a burgundy coloured Nissan Note and found a black Taurus 9mm pistol on the floor of the front passenger side as well as 12 unfired rounds of 9mm ammunition.
A search of the defendants’ residences the following day found a single additional 9mm round in Jean’s room and six additional rounds of 9mm ammunition in Knowles’s room.
Both men reversed their earlier position and pleaded guilty.
Magistrate McKinney sentenced Lusconder to two and half years in prison for the firearm charge and one year for the ammunition charges to be served concurrently.
While the firearm and it’s attached ammunition charge were withdrawn from Knowles, he was fined $500 for the ammunition found in his room or risk six months in prison.
Both accused have the right to appeal sentencing within seven days.
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