Tommy Lee arrested, charged with illegal possession of firearm
Tommy Lee Sparta [Photo: Courtesy]
Jamaican dancehallartist Leroy Russell Junior, better known as Tommy Lee Sparta, could spend Christmas in police custody after he was arrested in St Andrew on December 14 for possession of an illegal firearm.
According to
Loop, the Flankers - Montego Bay bred artist was detained alongside six other individuals after he was found with a Glock pistol with 18 rounds of ammunition following a search by Jamaica’s constabulary forces of a Toyota Mark X car he was travelling in along Holborn Road, St Andrew.
The arrest comes under three months after he spent 41 days in custody after he was named as a person of interest in investigations into an upsurge in violence in his native St James Parish, Montego Bay’s capital, north-west end of Jamaica.