Lowe facing gun charge

An allegation that he had an illegal firearm resulted in a 21-year-old man’s automatic remand at prison.

Tre Decoursey Lowe, of Allamby Gap, Spooners Hill, St Michael is charged with having an unlicensed firearm in his possession on April 27.

He was not required to plead to the indictable charge when he appeared before the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court this afternoon.

But the first-time offender pleaded guilty to riding a bicycle on Spooners Hill on the same day without a helmet, a lamp, a bell and number plate.

Sergeant St Clair Phillips said police were in the area around 11:10 p.m. when officers in an unmarked vehicle spotted Lowe riding. They signaled to him to stop but he evaded them at first by riding through a side road and was subsequently caught.

He was ordered to pay costs on $25 for the bell and $25 for the helmet or spend seven days in prison.  He was reprimanded and discharged on the other traffic charges.

Sergeant Phillips also told Magistrate Douglas Frederick that a search warrant was carried out at Lowe’s residence the following day – April 28 – where 132 grammes of cannabis seeds worth $600 were found in his bedroom in a container.

Lowe wasted no time and pleaded guilty to the charges of possession, possession with intent to supply and possession of a traffickable quantity of cannabis.

“It was just seeds not vegetable matter. It was just seeds that I just gathered. I does smoke and just every time that I realise that the weed have in seeds I just put it aside,” said Lowe who explained that the drug was his way of relaxing as he was not working and trying to find a job.

“I don’t lime on a block or nothing so,” he added.

He was ordered to pay $800 or spend three months in prison.

Lowe, who was remanded to Dodds, is to reappear before Magistrate Frederick on May 28 on the gun charge.