Four people charged after police seize firearm, ammo, in Kingston
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Four people, including a female, were arrested and charged with illegal possession of firearm and ammunition following the seizure of a firearm and several rounds of ammunition on Monday, October 17.
Charged are 20-year-old Shanti Whitton, of Grants Pen Drive, St Andrew, a 17-year-old boy of Last Street, Kingston, a 16-year-old student of Providence Lane, Kingston 5, and 27-year-old Jamar Ingram, a taxi operator of East Street, Kingston.
Reports from the Hunts Bay Police are that about 10:20 pm, lawmen intercepted a Nissan Ad Wagon motorcar on Spanish Town Road in Kingston 11. The vehicle was searched which resulted in the seizure of a Browning Single Action 9mm pistol with a magazine containing eleven rounds of ammunition.
The four were subsequently charged.
