Two St James men charged over gun seizure
Published:Friday | October 9, 2020 | 1:24 PM
Two men are scheduled to appear before the Gun Court on Friday, October 16 to answer charges of illegal possession of firearm and illegal possession of ammunition following a seizure that occurred on Thursday.
Charged are 23-year-old Shavoy Shaw, a tiler, and 35-year-old Damarkie Campbell, otherwise called ‘Markie’, both of Farm Heights, Montego Bay, St James.
The police report that about 8:25 p.m., a team was conducting operations on Crawford Street in the parish when they signalled the driver of a Toyota Mark X motorcar to stop.
He complied.
The police say the vehicle and the occupants were searched resulting in the seizure of a 9mm Beretta pistol with a magazine containing seven 9mm rounds of ammunition.
Shaw and Campbell were arrested and subsequently charged.
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