Bush Hall man fined $15 000 for illegal gun

Convict Dave Mcfield Scott has been fined $15 000 for having a .32 semi-automatic pistol on June 13, 2013.

However, when the Military Road, Bush Hall, St Michael resident appeared before Justice Carlisle Greaves on Wednesday he was told that he had seven days in which to pay $10 000 of the amount and the remaining $5 000 in a month later.

Failure to adhere to the court’s order will see Scott, who was represented by attorney-at-law Angella Mitchell-Gittens, spending four and a half years in prison. That’s the remainder of an eight-year starting sentence imposed on him for the crime. He was credited for his guilty plea and the nine and a half months that he had spent on remand at Dodds.

However, both the defence and Crown submitted that a fine would meet the justice of Scott’s case.

“That is your last chance dancing with a firearm in this country. Anymore dances with a firearm . . . and you are found guilty, you shall go to jail,” the High Court Judge told Scott during a virtual sitting of Supreme Court No. 3.

Acting Senior Crown Counsel Rudolph Burnett told the court that police acting on information ventured to Sealy Land, Bank Hall, St Michael where they saw Scott standing in front a vehicle with the bonnet opened.

On seeing the police, however, he ran off and officers observed a gun fall from his person onto the street and into a nearby gutter.

He was apprehended and the weapon retrieved.

Asked to account for it, he reportedly said that he had received the gun from a man and repaired it as it was not in working order.