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Convicted Man Gets Bail
posted (December 2, 2014)
54 year-old Jamaican Delroy Chambers was sentenced to 5 years in jail for a drug trafficking and firearm offences in October, but tonight, he's at home after only 72 days behind bars because he has started the process of appealing his case.

As we told you, Chambers was convicted of being in possession of drugs and a loaded weapon. Officers from Special Branch testified in his criminal trial a few months ago. They told the court that they searched his house on October 12, 2013 and they ended up finding 1.5 kilos - or 3.3 pounds of weed, a 9 millimeter pistol, and 9 live rounds of ammunition. As a result, police arrested and charged him with drug trafficking, keeping an unlicensed firearm, keeping unlicensed ammunition, and drug trafficking.

Well today, his attorney applied to the Magistrate's Court for a stay of execution because Chambers wants to appeal the convictions on the premise that the illegal items weren't exactly found in his house, but in areas accessible by other people. The stay of execution was granted today by Magistrate Dale Cayetano, and Chambers was released on bail of $3,000.

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