By PAVEL BAILEY
Tribune Court Reporter
pbailey@tribunemedia.net
A 20-YEAR-OLD man was sent to the department of correctional services yesterday to await sentencing after admitting to having a gun that he says he took from his fighting neighbours earlier this week.
Cornell Seymour faced Senior Magistrate Carolyn Vogt-Evans on charges of possession of an unlicensed fireman and possession of ammunition.
At around noon on March 14 on Ethel Street, in the area of Montel Heights, officers approached Seymour in his parked grey Nissan Note for suspicious behaviour.
A search of the vehicle uncovered a black Taurus G2C 9mm pistol on the floor of the left passenger seat. Officers further seized seven unfired rounds of 9mm ammunition from the driver’s side of the vehicle.
In court, the accused pleaded guilty to both charges.
When questioned on his actions by the magistrate, Seymour claimed it wasn’t his gun. He said he had taken it from his neighbours, who he says are husband and wife, while they were having a potentially violent argument the night before his arrest. He further claimed police found the gun disassembled in his car and that it was his intent to return the weapon to its owner.
When asked by Magistrate Vogt-Evans why he didn’t call the police to collect the firearm Seymour said that he was unaware that he could do that.
After the prosecution confirmed the claims made by Seymour were also what he had told police in his official record of interview, the magistrate deferred Seymour’s sentencing to March 27.
Until that time, Seymour will be sent to the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services.
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