Topic: illegal firearms

A Grand Court jury unanimously on Tuesday found Javier Davis Howell guilty of three counts of possession of an illegal firearm and a single count of dangerous driving after hearing evidence that a gun and bullets were found in his car after he crashed into a light pole.

A man accused of leaving a gun and ammunition in his car, after crashing his vehicle into a light pole last year while evading police, told a Grand Court jury Monday that his vehicle had been stolen from a construction site at which he'd been working that day.

A man who claimed he found a backpack containing an untraceable so-called 'ghost' gun, bullets and drugs on a beach in East End was sentenced on Tuesday to nine years in prison.

A man pleaded guilty in Grand Court on Friday to possessing a gun that had been converted into an automatic weapon.

The amnesty programme allows community members to surrender illegal guns or ammunition without fear of prosecution.