Case opens against “Junie Balls” McKenzie

He is no stranger to criminal prosecution nor to the media. Once again former gang leader George “Junie Balls” McKenzie is in court… but the difference is that as part of a so called “experiment” the case against him is being pursued not by a police prosecutor but a private Attorney hired by the government. And no ordinary attorney either but well-known human rights activist Simeon Sampson. McKenzie is being charged with possession of a prohibited firearm, namely a tech nine submachine gun. During the first day of testimony Police Constable Kareem Fuller told the court that around one thirty in the morning of October twenty-fourth he observed McKenzie inside a taxi taking something from between his legs and passing it over his left shoulder. Fuller asked the occupants to get out and a search of the vehicle revealed the tech nine along with two magazines and thirty-three live rounds of ammunition. McKenzie’s attorney Lutchman Sooknandan argued that it was impossible for Fuller to see anything because the taxi’s windows were tinted. Also arrested were fellow occupants of the vehicle Karim Gentle and Eugene Neal. This morning all charges against Gentle were dropped. At newstime the case was still being argued in the court of Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord.