A West La Penitence man was yesterday sentenced to two years in jail after he pleaded guilty to having an unlicenced gun in his possession.
Quincy Glasgow, a businessman, admitted to Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan that on December 30th, 2018 at Cemetery Road, Georgetown, he had in his possession, a 9mm Taurus pistol without being the holder of a firearm licence.
After pleading guilty, Glasgow told the court that he found the gun while he was cleaning a trench.
He said he found a plastic bag containing a gun inside and he told his workmate who advised him to take the gun to a bar to sell it. According to Glasgow, he told his workmate that he would prefer to carry the gun to a police outpost but the workmate insisted that he should sell the gun to him at the bar. Glasgow said that after he showed up at the bar, his workmate bought him a drink, then went to the back, and a couple of minutes later, he saw police officers who had come to arrest him.
According to the prosecutor’s facts, at about 22:45 hours that day, police acted on information and went to a bar on Cemetery Road where they saw Glasgow acting in a suspicious manner. He was searched and the gun was found inside a black bag in a haversack on Glasgow’s back. The man told the police he had found the gun in a trench in Bel-Air.
Glasgow was sentenced to two years in jail and was fined $50,000.
