Tommy Lee Sparta
Entertainer Tommy Lee Sparta has been charged with illegal possession of firearm and ammunition and is set to spend Christmas and the New Year holidays behind bars.
Police report that a Toyota Mark X motor car was stopped, the occupants searched and the suspect found with the firearm and ammunition. He was taken into custody in relation to the seizure.
Tommy Lee, who has had several run-ins with the law over the last six years, is scheduled to appear in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on January 6, 2021 to face the charges.
He is being represented by Donahue Martin and Queen’s Counsel Tom Tavares Finson.
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.
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Senior Superintendent Stephanie Lindsay, head of the Jamaica Constabulary Force s Corporate Communications Unit, confirmed to
THE STAR last night that the artiste had been detained. I don t know the details at this moment, but I can confirm that he was held and is in police custody, Lindsay said in response to questions pertaining to reports that the deejay was being held on suspicion of illegal possession of a firearm.
Sources have told
THE STAR that the deejay was held with a firearm, allegedly a Glock, along Holborn Road in New Kingston. Sources also say Tommy Lee Sparta was held by members of the S.W.A.T division.
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