Soldier Busted With Illegal Weapon/​ammo

The police are report­ing that a team of offi­cers arrest­ed and charged a JDF sol­dier, 26-year-old Orane Samuels and seized a 9MM Pistol S/​N G23151 with a mag­a­zine and twelve (12) 9mm cartridges.

Officers report­ed that they were con­duct­ing rou­tine enquires and patrol in the Crescent dis­trict area of St Catherine when Samuels was spot­ted act­ing sus­pi­cious­ly. 
He was stopped and searched and the weapon tak­en from his waist­band.

According to the police, their inves­ti­ga­tions have revealed that the Soldier has been in pos­ses­sion of the weapon since the peri­od between 2015 and 2016, as he claimed to have found it at Logan Lane in Linstead dur­ing that time.
The Military was informed.