22 year-old Wilfred Ramirez, a resident of Antelope Street Extension, is spending the second night of a 4 year sentence after he was convicted of being in possession of a sawed off shot gun while at a funeral.
Chief Magistrate Ann Marie Smith heard evidence from the prosecution that on May 9, 2014, police were at Lord Ridge Cemetery to keep a watchful eye on the funeral procession for slain city resident Julian Willoughby. Viewers may remember that his murder was believed to be gang-related, and so, the police were there to keep the peace.
That's when they noticed Ramirez who started to behave suspiciously. They saw him holding on to what looked like a gun being held in his pants waist. When the officers moved in his direction, he lost his hold on the object which slid down his pants leg and fell to the ground. The officers quickly detained him and retrieved the object which turned out to be a home-made sawed off shot gun.
Yesterday, when the case was called up before Chief Magistrate Ann Marie Smith, Ramirez decided to change his initial plea of not guilty, to guilty. Chief Magistrate Ann Marie Smith sentenced him to 4 years for keeping a prohibited firearm, and 4 years for keeping prohibited ammunition. Both sentence are to run concurrently, and so, he will only serve 4 years in jail.
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