Shyne found guilty, awaits sentencing

The big crime news over the weekend in the States was the acquittal of Sean “Puffy” Combs on weapons and bribery charges arising from a ruction last year at a Manhattan night club. Further down in some of the stories they may or may not have mentioned that Puff Daddy’s companion that night, Belizean Rapper Jamal “Shyne” Barrow, was not so fortunate. The twenty-one year old was convicted of assault and wreckless endangerment after he admitted that he fired several shots in the crowded club that injured two people. Shyne faces five to twenty-five years in prison and will be sentenced on April sixteenth. Barrow, who left Belize for New York when he was twelve, is the son of Opposition Leader Dean Barrow and Imeon Myvett.