7 Charged For Possession Of Illegal Firearm, 1 Pleads Guilty

This morning, a routine search was conducted at a house in Siene Bight Village, Stann Creek. This search resulted in the arrest of seven individuals after police discovered an unlicensed firearm and ammunition inside the building. Police arrested and charged fifty-one-year-old Rita Lopez; fifty-three-year-old Neville Henry Lopez Senior; twenty-four-year-old; Neville Henry Lopez Junior, eighteen-year-old Azzani Mossiah; twenty-three-year-old Kenrick Chi; twenty-three-year-old Nevon Lopez; and twenty-three-year-old Jahfari Gonguez. All seven persons were arraigned at the Dangriga Magistrates Court today, where Nevon Lopez pleaded guilty to keeping a firearm without a gun license and keeping ammunition without a gun license. He was remanded to the Hattieville Prison for sentencing until April seventeenth. The charges the others were withdrawn.