By PAVEL BAILEY
Tribune Staff Reporter
pbailey@tribunemedia.net
A FORMER police constable was granted $8,000 bail and charged with gun-related offences yesterday after he was accused of brandishing a loaded gun outside a bar earlier this week.
Magistrate Lennox Coleby charged former PC 4394 Dreyon Henfield, 27, with possession of an unlicensed firearm and possession of ammunition.
Henfield was dismissed from the force on Wednesday. Relatives and friends packed the court room during his arraignment.
Henfield is accused of brandishing a black .45 Springfield XD-45 ACP pistol and 14 .45 rounds of ammunition at the Tight Pocket Bar on Cowpen Road in the early morning of March 12. He was allegedly intoxicated at the time.
An off-duty officer reported the incident, resulting in the confiscation of the firearm.
Henfield was reportedly on extended sick leave at the time of the incident.
After Henfield pleaded not guilty to the charge, prosecutor Inspector Lincoln McKenzie raised no objections to him getting bail.
The defendant must sign in at the Carmichael Road Police Station every Monday and Friday by 6pm.
Henfield is the son of former Foreign Affairs Minister and current FNM Senator Darren Henfield.
His trial begins on May 2.
Ryzard Humes, Elsworth Johnson and Desmond Bannister represented the accused.
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