Two charged over seizure of gun at Clarendon home
Published:Tuesday | December 27, 2022 | 10:28 AM
Two persons have been charged over the seizure of an illegal gun at their home in Hayes, Clarendon on December 24.
They are 29-year-old sales clerk Judian Whyte and 30-year-old Wayne Spencer, a construction worker.
They are from the community of Top Hill in Hayes, where they were arrested.
The two have been charged with possession of a prohibited weapon and possession of prohibited ammunition.
The offences are under the Firearms, Prohibition, Restriction and Regulation Act, a law recently approved by Parliament.
The police say about 5 a.m. on Christmas Eve, a team conducting operations searched the home of the two and one Taurus pistol with a magazine and twelve point 40 cartridges were found.
A court date has not been announced.
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