Tonight, 19 year-old Jose Alfredo Herrera is serving his first night of a 6 year prison sentence after the Gang Suppression Unit busted him with drugs, weapons and ammunition near to his house in Valley of Peace. The GSU searched his house this morning at around 5 o'clock, where they found nothing illegal.

But, when they searched a lot in front of his house, they found a 16 gauge shotgun with a galvanized pipe attached to the barrel in a plastic bag. It was loaded with a 16 gauge cartridge. They found a second 16 gauge cartridge inside a black plastic bag atop a tree trunk.

The officers also found a white bucket with 650 grams – or 22.9 ounces – of marijuana. Herrera admitted that all the items belonged to him, so, as a result, he was charged with drug trafficking, 1 count of kept an unlicensed firearm, and 2 counts of keeping unlicensed ammunition.

He was arraigned in Magistrate's Court, and he was sentenced to 5 years on each of the firearm offences to run concurrently, and 3 years for the drug trafficking offence. He sentenced to pay an additional $10,000 forthwith, which he couldn't do, so he will spend a total of 6 since all sentences are to run concurrently.