17-year-old admitted to hiding gun under testicles to get into fete with protection

A teenager told police four years ago that he got into a fete at Pirate’s Cove with a .25 semiautomatic pistol hidden under his scrotum, and that he had walked with the gun to protect himself.

However, during the event, security officials had cause to search him again and found the firearm in his pants waist, where he had repositioned it.

That evidence was contained in a statement given by Kadeem O’Brian Clarke, of Johnson Land, Workmans, St George, who pleaded guilty in Supreme Court No. 4 to having the illegal gun and three rounds of ammunition on May 13, 2017. He was 17 years old at the time.

Crown Counsel Kevin Forde read the contents of the statement before Madam Justice Laurie-Ann Smith-Bovell on Thursday, as he outlined the facts of the two charges against Clarke.

He said police went on duty to Lower Bay Street, The City, where they had a conversation with some people, including security guard Richard Woodall who had Clarke detained.

Woodall told police: “We hold this man here with a firearm.”

When questioned about the weapon, Clarke responded: “It is mine.”

Told about his rights, including that to obtain an attorney, the young man replied: “Sir, no need for nothing so.”

The gun was then searched in the presence of Clarke and the security officer and found to contain a magazine with three rounds of ammunition.

When Clarke was further questioned, he said he had obtained the illegal firearm from “a Rasta man from up by me”, whose name or address he did not know.

“I was getting unfair from school days and I wanted to defend myself,” he said.

The young man, who goes by the alias Frog, then dictated a statement to police.

In it, he said he went to a fete at Pirates Cove, on May 13, 2017, with the firearm.

“I had the gun under my balls,” the statement read, adding that security did not find it when the teenager was first searched.

However, Clarke said there was a guy who was smoking and “the security bore me”.

The weapon was later discovered, police were called in and Clarke was arrested.

Clarke, who is represented by attorney-at-law Angella Mitchell-Gittens, will reappear before the judge on July 28 when counsel on both sides will make submissions on sentencing.

Clarke has one prior conviction for cannabis and has spent 1 032 days on remand at HMP Dodds in connection with the gun and ammunition offences.