The Tribune

By PAVEL BAILEY

Tribune Staff Reporter

pbailey@tribunemedia.net

A MAN was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison yesterday after he was found guilty of having a loaded gun near his home on Cockburn Street in 2021.

Magistrate Kendra Kelly concluded Trevino Thompson’s trial for possession of ammunition and an unlicensed firearm.

Nathan Smith represented the 33-year-old.

Police reportedly observed the accused throw a gun into a yard adjacent to his own as they tried to search his residence on March 24, 2021.

A Taurus 9mm pistol with 13 rounds of ammunition was recovered during this incident. Thompson was the only one at home at the time.

After reviewing the evidence against him, Magistrate Kelly found that prosecutor Sgt Vernon Pyfrom proved Thompson’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

It was noted that the defendant was an expectant father and was responsible for another child.

In issuing her two-and-a-half-year prison sentence for the offence, Magistrate Kelly told the defendant that while she tried to be lenient, she had to consider the current proliferation of gun violence.