Farmer charged $80k for two rounds

Shane Hamilton, a 38-year-old farmer from Lawrence Tavern in St Andrew, was today fined $80,000 for two 9 millimetre rounds of ammunition found in a bag at his home.

Hamilton was fined $40,000 each for two counts possession of prohibited material, after he pleaded guilty in the Gun Court section of the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court last Friday.

The court heard that a on September 9, a police team carried out a search at Hamilton's house when a brown shopping bag was found with the two rounds.

Brown when caution told the police, " A nuh my own a someone put it there."

Attorney-at-law Lynden Camille Wellesley who represented Hamilton while maintaining that the rounds did not belong to his client asked for the court's discretion.

- Tanesha Mundle 

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