By PAVEL BAILEY
Tribune Staff Reporter
pbailey@tribunemedia.net
A 19-year-old youth was sentenced to 30 months in prison after admitting to having a loaded pistol on Prison Lane last week.
Magistrate Lennox Coleby arraigned Rico Alexander on possession of an unlicensed firearm and two counts of possession of ammunition.
Police reportedly arrested the defendant after he was found with a loaded .22 revolver on February 7.A search of the defendant’s residence uncovered 21 rounds of 7.62 ammunition.
The defendant pleaded guilty to all charges and accepted the facts against him in his case.
Magistrate Coleby ordered the defendant to serve a 30-month sentence at the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services.
He must also pay a total fine of $10,000 for the ammunition charges or risk an additional year in prison.
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