The Tribune

By PAVEL BAILEY

Tribune Staff Reporter

pbailey@tribunemedia.net

A MAN was sentenced to three years in prison after admitting to owning a loaded gun found in an abandoned car in Miller’s End last weekend.

Magistrate Lennox Coleby charged Mervin Johnson, 25, and Samuel Woodside, 23, with possession of an unlicenced firearm and possession of ammunition.

The pair were arrested on March 16 after police reportedly found a black Taurus PT92 9mm pistol along with a quantity of ammunition near Minnie Street. 

Although both defendants initially pleaded not guilty to the charges, Johnson reversed his earlier decision and alone pleaded guilty to the offence.

Johnson was then sentenced to 36 months at the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services. 

Conversely, Woodside was denied bail and remanded to prison until his trial begins on March 27.