Portmore toll security guard facing illegal gun, assault charges

Fifty-year-old Norris McLarty, security guard of Wareham Road, Kingston 2 has been arrested and charged with illegal possession of firearm, assault at common law and assault occasioning bodily harm following an incident at the Portmore toll booth in St. Catherine on Saturday.

Reports from the Portmore police are that about 11a.m., an argument developed between the complainant and a toll collector when the security guard, on duty at the toll booth, intervened.

It is alleged that during the dispute the McLarty used his company issued firearm to hit the complainant.

The police were summoned and he was subsequently arrested and charged.

He is scheduled to appear in the St. Catherine Parish Court on April 20.

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