File photo of a joint security forces team on operation.
A 20-year-old man who is said to be a relative of a former Spanish Town, St Catherine don, is now in police custody following a snap raid that led to a firearm seizure on Friday.
The man, identified as Roneal Hope, otherwise called ‘Ron’, unemployed of Old Harbour Road, Spanish Town, was arrested at about 10 pm.
Reports are that in a joint police-military patrol conducted a snap raid in the Ellerslie Pen community, during which the accused was seen and accosted. During a searched, a Sig Sauer 9mm pistol with a magazine loaded with fourteen 9mm rounds of ammunition was reportedly found in his right front pants pocket.
Firearm seized in Spanish Town, man in custody
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Firearm seized in Spanish Town, man in custody
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