18 year-old Clifford Lorenzo is spending the first night of a 5 year sentence in prison after he was convicted of firearm offences in the Magistrate's Court.

According to police, at around 11:30 a.m. yesterday, they were conducting searches at a checkpoint at the corner of Vista Del Mar Road and the Phillip Goldson Highway.

According to the officers, they stopped a car, which was being driven by 25 year-old Victor Pratt. Lorenzo was in the front passenger seat.

The officers said that they searched both men, and the vehicle, and under the front passenger seat, they discovered a black Smith and Wesson 9mm firearm, which was loaded with 11 live rounds of Aguila brand ammunition.

As a result, both men were charged with keeping an unlicensed firearm, and keeping unlicensed ammunition, and they were arraigned before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith today.

Lorenzo pleaded guilty to both charges, and as a result, Chief Magistrate Smith sentenced him to a mandatory 5 years in prison for each count.