BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – A male resident of Conaree Village was yesterday (Apr. 27) arrested and charged for possessing an illegal firearm and a quantity of ammunition.
Charged is 24-year-old Leon ‘Solo’ Jederon, who is said to have allegedly thrown a firearm into a clump of bushes during a police stop and search operation on the FT Williams Highway.
According to Police Press and Public Relations Officer, Inspector Vaughan Henderson, at about 7:45 a.m. yesterday, members of the Special Services Unit were on a routine patrol when they stopped and search a vehicle on the FT Williams Highway in the vicinity of Taylors Village.
“While on patrol, the officers stopped and searched motor pickup truck P3773, owned and driven by Bryan ‘DJ Benjie’ Farrell of Shadwell Estate. Farrell and several occupants of the vehicle were informed that the search was on suspicion of arms, ammunition and controlled drugs.
“One of the occupants in the goods carriage of the pickup truck threw an object in some nearby bushes on the approach of the police.
As a result, officers arrested the occupants of the vehicle on suspicion and searched the area where the object was thrown and found a 357 Magnum revolver with six matching rounds of ammunition wrapped in a black ski mask,” Henderson said.
The PRO said all occupants of the vehicle were arrested on suspicion and taken into police custody.
He added that the firearm was processed and taken police custody for further analysis, and Jederon was later charged “without a warrant for possession of firearm and ammunition”.
This find brings to six the amount of illegal firearms removed from the streets of the Federation for the year. In 2010 police had removed 45 of them off the streets – 11 in Nevis and 34 in St. Kitts.
