BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – A Dominican-recruited Constable was dismissed from the Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force (RSCNPF) following disciplinary charges, which occurred around the same time a number of firearms and a quantity of ammunition were discovered missing from the Gingerland Police Station in Nevis.
Information reaching this media house yesterday (Nov. 10) states that Constable Jonathan Carbon, a citizen of the Commonwealth of Dominica, was dismissed from the RSCNPF in August last and has since returned to his homeland.
Speaking with the Commissioner of Police (Ag), Stafford Liburd, SKNVibes learnt that his dismissal was not related to the criminal charges that were brought against him for alleged involvement in the sale of a firearm and ammunition to a civilian in Nevis.
“Constable Carbon was dismissed from the Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force in August 2010 after he was convicted on two of three disciplinary charges. The charges on which he was convicted are Insubordinate Conduct and Disobedience to Orders.
“Although the offences for which disciplinary action was taken occurred around the same time criminal charges were preferred against him, the former had nothing to do with the latter. They were unrelated cases. Further, Constable Carbon was acquitted on the criminal charges.”
On Friday, October 9, 2009, three firearms and a quantity of ammunition were discovered missing from the Gingerland Police Station, where Carbon was based. Some six weeks after, while on duty in the Stoney Grove area, officers of the Nevis Traffic Department observed a white motorcar (RA 581) travelling to Charlestown from the direction of Gingerland.
The officers stopped the vehicle and told the driver, who gave his name as Chase Hamilton of Hanley Road, to reverse onto Horsford’s Parking Lot because they suspected him of carrying a firearm, cannabis and stolen goods. During the search, the officers saw two bags in the vehicle and on examination found that one of them contained a .38 Revolver and six matching rounds of ammunition.
Hamilton was taken into custody along with the items at the Charlestown Police Station, where investigations revealed that he was not a licenced firearm holder and the .38 Revolver was registered to the RSCNPF. He was subsequently charged with possession of a firearm and possession of ammunition.
Investigations further revealed that the Revolver was one of three firearms that were missing from the Gingerland Police Station. And according to informed sources, Carbon allegedly sold the .38 Revolver to Hamilton and he was subsequently charged and remanded to prison on Friday, November 27, 2009.
Meanwhile, Hamilton had appeared before Her Worship Yasmine Clarke at the Charlestown Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, February 23, 2010, where he pleaded guilty to the two charges and was sentenced to serve five years at Her Majesty’s Prison.
Informed sources also stated that when Carbon appeared in court to answer to his charges, the magistrate dismissed the case because of lack of evidence.
