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Two Years In Jail for A Single Live Round
posted (November 3, 2010)
A twenty two year old man had to cop a plea to keep his mother and other family members from going to jail on remand. Talbert Mena was charged along with his mother and four others after police executed a search warrant yesterday afternoon, at 42 Lawrence Avenue, Apartment number three and found a single round of RG brand 9 millimeter caliber ammunition hidden in a suitcase tucked under a bed. Magistrate Dorothy Flowers accepted Mena's guilty plea and dismissed the charges against the other five persons who were in the apartment at the time of the search.

And for that single round of ammunition, he will spend a considerable two years in jail.

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