Twenty-five-year-old RICHIE DUPREY, of Sugars Lane, Damarie Hill, Sangre Grande, has been fined $10,000 by a Sangre Grande Magistrate after he pleaded guilty last Friday, March 31 to firearm and ammunition possession charges.

Duprey was charged on March 30th by PC Singh with Possession of a Firearm and Possession of Ammunition and was allowed six months to pay the fine or in default serve three years’ hard labour at prison.

He was held by police officers attached to the Eastern Division Gang and Intelligence Unit (EDGIU) on March 29th who were executing a raid at his Damarie Hill, Sangre Grande home.

According to police reports, during the search of the premises, EDGIU officers found and seized a Glock Pistol with six rounds of nine-millimetre ammunition. Police later arrested the suspect and took the weapons into evidence for processing.

The EDGIU continued investigations