Man Held with Illegal Firearm and Ammunition in Kingston

Latest Jamaica News, Kingston (McKoy’s News): Detectives attached to the St Andrew South police division arrested and charged one man in connection with the seizure of an illegal firearm and several rounds of ammunition, on the weekend.

He has been identified as 23-year-old Neio Garrick, otherwise called “Chad” or “Giovanni” of Edgewater in Portmore, St Catherine, and Woodpecker Avenue, in Kingston.

Reports by the Hunts Bay police are that about 4:00 p.m., on Friday. January 10, a team of officers were on operation in the area when they saw Garrick acting in a suspicious manner.

He was accosted and searched, and a Taurus 9mm pistol fitted with a magazine containing eleven live rounds taken from him.