A security guard will be spending the next four years in jail after he admitted to being in possession of an unlicensed gun and ammunition.
Alden Adonis, 35, of Campbellville Housing Scheme, eventually settled on guilty pleas to charges of unlawful possession of a firearm and unlawful possession of ammunition.
In offering the guilty pleas, Adonis told Magistrate Judy Latchman, at Georgetown Magistrates’ Court 3, that he did not want to waste the court’s time.
Adonis was charged with having a 9 mm pistol along with five live rounds in his possession, while he was not the holder of a firearm licence on April 6, at Campbellville, Georgetown.
Prosecutor Deniro Jones said a party of policemen were on patrol duty when they received information about threats which led them to Campbellville Housing Scheme.
Upon arrival, Adonis, who was in possession of the gun, decided to run. But the officers eventually caught up with him. He was arrested with the weapon in his left hand, Jones stated.
Jones further stated that Adonis was taken to the Kitty Police station, where he revealed that he had borrowed the gun from a person who was in the interior. He also disclosed that he had hidden the weapon in some grass and had gone to retrieve it when he observed the lawmen, who also unearthed the five rounds from the location where the gun was hidden.
Magistrate Latchman told Adonis that after she considered the police’s facts and all the mitigating factors, including his decision not to waste the court’s time, he would be sentenced to 48 months for each charge and fined $70,000. The sentences are to run concurrently.
