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Delivery Man Busted By GSU With Weapon
posted (October 29, 2012)
23 year-old Ronald Joseph Michael, a part-time delivery man of Lovely Lane, is in prison tonight after police allegedly busted him with a firearm on Friday.

According to the GSU, they were on patrol and while on Giles Street, they saw Michael and another person walking at around 4:55 p.m. Michael allegedly began to act suspicious, and as a result, the officers detained and searched him. They allegedly found a black 9 mm pistol, which was had 4 live rounds in the magazine in his waist.

As a result, Michael was formally arrested and charged with keeping an unlicensed firearm, and keeping unlicensed ammunition. He was arraigned before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer, where he pleaded not guilty to both charges. Due to the nature of the offences, he couldn't be granted bail, and he was remanded until December 11, his next court date.

According to the GSU, they believe Michael is a member of the Victoria Street Bloods Gang. And on Saturday, at around 9:20 am, GSU personnel conducted a search on an open lot on Nurse Findley Crescent where a black plastic containing 248 grams of cannabis was found. No one was in the area and the drugs were labeled and deposited as found property. The GSU believes that the package belongs to a local peddler who lives on that street.

And at around 3:35 p.m. that same day, the GSU were on Elston Kerr Street, and they intercepted 33 year-old George Denfield Young. The GSU say that after Young saw the officers, he threw away a black plastic bag.

The officers detained him, retrieved the bag, and searched it, where they discovered 63 grams of cannabis. As a result he was arrested and charged with Drug Trafficking.

He was taken to Magistrate's Court today, where he was arraigned on the charge. According to the GSU, Young is a reputed drug peddler in the Elston Kerr Street area.

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