Thursday, June 1, 2017
By SANCHESKA DORSETT
Tribune Staff Reporter
sdorsett@tribunemedia.net
POLICE arrested a male and a female early on Wednesday morning after officers discovered an AK-47 assault rifle along with 30 rounds of ammunition in their home.
According to reports, shortly after 6.30am, officers assigned to the Eastern Division executed a search warrant on a home off Pepper Road in Eastwood Estates.
During the search officers uncovered the assault rifle and the ammunition. The two residents of the home, a man and a woman, were taken into custody in connection with the find. Investigations are ongoing.
Anyone with information on this incident is asked to contact police at 911 or 919, the Central Detective Unit at 502-9991 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 328-TIPS.
Comments
Greentea says...
I hope they get 5+ years in Prison
Posted 2 June 2017, 1:11 a.m. Suggest removal
Honestman says...
Should be 10 years minimum.
Posted 2 June 2017, 1:34 p.m. Suggest removal
DDK says...
HOW ARE ALL OF THESE WEAPONS AND AMMUNITION GETTING INTO OUR COUNTRY? WE KNOW WHICH COUNTRY SELLS WEAPONS AND AMMUNITION OVER THE COUNTER OR AT GUN SHOWS WITH NO VETTING OF THE PURCHASER.........
Posted 2 June 2017, 4:16 p.m. Suggest removal
Bonefishpete says...
Maybe just maybe the Bahamas Government should legalize gun ownership for law abiding
Bahamians to protect themselves, handguns included. Seems the guns are getting into the country anyways.
Posted 2 June 2017, 5 p.m. Suggest removal
sheeprunner12 says...
Well ........... Dames, Greenslade, TBethel and all of the other gazetted officers in the RBPF and RBDF better start earning those big salaries, medals, stripes, pips and crowns to solve these guns, ammo, drugs, traffickers and poachers issues ........ Flush out the Bahamians who profit from these illegal crime rings
Posted 2 June 2017, 5:19 p.m. Suggest removal
DaGoobs says...
Somehow, some way, our Customs and Immigration services are failing us as well as the Customs and Alcohol/Tobacco/Firearms services of the US government. How is it that these guns are finding their way out of the USA into the Bahamas and none of these governmental agencies on either side seems able or interested in doing something about it? I'm sure if Bahamians were exporting guns and ammunition into the USA there would have been multiple extraditions and allegations of the Bahamas supporting or failing to prevent terrorism. However, as the flow is in the opposite direction and Bahamians must be spending money in the USA to buy these guns, are we to believe that the Americans are happy for the revenues? The Bahamian government mustvbecome much more aggressive about the prosecution and sentencing of persons found with unlicensed firearms and ammunition, particularly assault weapons like an AK-47. We should not succumb to the stupid argument of licensing businessmen and others to possess handguns and other weapons. We don't need more persons on the street with guns, licensed or otherwise. We should strive for zero tolerance on the possession of firearms. Guns are designed for one purpose: to kill and to severely injure, and either we are going to get serious about taking them off our streets or we should get out of the game. If a magistrate believes that a case involving a gun demands a greater sentence than he or she can impose, they they should remit the matter to a Supreme Court judge for sentencing as permitted by the Criminal Procedure Code.
Posted 5 June 2017, 2:13 a.m. Suggest removal
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