Taxi man charged with firearm related offences

Investigators from the St Andrew North Division have arrested and charged a man in relation to an incident that took place on Burke Road, Kingston on Sunday, August 23.

Charged with discharge of firearm within forty yards of a public thoroughfare and illegal possession of firearm and ammunition is 38-year-old Jermaine Bartley, otherwise called ‘Kevin’, a taxi operator of Burke Road, in the parish.

Police reports are that about 2:30 p.m., Bartley and a woman had an argument when it is alleged that he brandished a gun and opened gunfire in the air.

A report was made to the police and Bartley subsequently turned himself in to the Police.

He was charged following an interview.

His court date is being finalised.

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