Tonight, 23 year old Devon Bailey, 19 year old Brandon Bailey, 20 year old Brandon Claire and his brother, 19 year old Javan Claire, are spending their second night on remand after being taken to court for a gun police found after a shooting.
Around 8:00 p.m. on Monday, February 16, a group of young men were in a yard on Antelope Street when shots were fired at them. Some of them ran through a yard and exited on Iguana Street. Police were in the area, and they responded. The officers say they saw when one of the fleeing men threw a weapon over a zinc fence at 38 Iguana Street. They detained the men, retrieved the weapon, a .25 mm pistol, which contained 3 rounds of ammunition. As a result, police charged the Bailey men and the Claire brothers with the offences of keeping an unlicensed firearm, and keeping unlicensed ammunition.
When they arraigned yesterday, Javan Claire wanted to plead guilty to the offences, but Magistrate Herbert Panton informed him that the sentence for firearm offences is 5 years. Javan Claire withdrew his guilty plea, and all 4 men pleaded not guilty to both offences. They were remanded into custody until April 10.
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