WESTMORELAND, Jamaica – The husband of a prominent Westmoreland lawyer has been arrested and charged with illegal possession of firearm and ammunition following a police operation in Little London, Westmoreland on Sunday.

Charged is 36-year-old Jason Barrett of a Rose Street, Savanna-la-Mar address, in the parish.

Reports from the Westmoreland police are that about 12:30am, a team of officers was on mobile patrol in the Big Bridge area, when Barrett was seen at the front of a shop with a bulge to the right side of his waistband.

Barrett was accosted and searched and a firearm taken from his waistband.

The firearm was inspected and found to be a black and silver Smith and Wesson Springfield 9mm pistol with a magazine containing sixteen 9mm rounds of ammunition.

Barrett thereafter informed the police that he was a licensed firearm holder. The police then requested that he produce his firearm user’s license. Barrett then went to his vehicle and made checks and later told the police he left the license at home.

The police later accompanied him to his home to retrieve the license. Whilst at his house he reportedly failed to produce the firearm license and thereafter admitted to the lawmen that he is not the holder of a firearm user’s license.

Barrett was subsequently charged.