A security guard has been sentenced to one year behind bars after police found him with a live round, which he claims he found at work.
Ansel Lyken was sentenced by Senior Magistrate Leron Daly on Friday in a city court.
He admitted to the charge that on June 28, at Fourth Street, Alberttown, Georgetown, he had a live .32 ammunition round in his possession without being the holder of a firearm licence in force at the time.
The Police Prosecutor told the court that on the day in question, the man’s girlfriend went to make a report of another matter at the Alberttown Police Station and that Lyken was called to the station. While there, he was seen acting in a suspicious manner. The police then asked him to conduct a search on him and he allowed them. The police then found the ammunition on him.
Following his guilty plea, Lyken told the magistrate that he had been at work, where he is a security guard, and he found the ammunition and had it on his person since. He said that he has two young children and that he is the only person maintaining them. He was, however, sentenced to a one-year sentence for the offence.
