FORMER Rivoli junior football club coach and reputed Klansman gang member Charles Salesman will spend the next eight years behind bars after being sentenced on gun-related charges last Wednesday.

Salesman, who is also known as “Charlie Pride”, picked up eight years each for illegal possession of firearm and shooting with intent charges when he appeared before Justice Patrick Brooks in the Gun Court.

But he will only serve eight years, as the sentences are to run concurrently. A second man – Renordo ‘Rodrick’ Harrison – also charged in the February 2005 incident, skipped bail last year.

Harrison, who is from March Pen Road in Spanish Town, is 5′ 7″ tall, of dark complexion, slim built, sports-shaved head and clean shave – and frequents the Portmore and Spanish Town areas. He is also wanted by the Spanish Town police on other gun-related matters and is always armed, the police told the Observer.

The court was told that Salesman and Harrison went to a premises in the Portmore area to steal a car and opened fire on the owner of the vehicle as he drove up to the yard about 11:00 pm.

The complainant, a licensed firearm holder, returned fire, drove off, then came back and a gun battle ensued.

Salesman and Harrison were arrested at the Spanish Town Hospital where they went for treatment after being shot.