Accused: firearm charge is for a special constable’s gun

A businessman busted for a firearm offence is tonight claiming he is being victimized. Around six on Friday police on patrol in Belama Phase two stopped and searched thirty-three year old Ernest Raymond Junior, who was sitting in a parked vehicle. During the search police say they found Raymond with a nine millimetre pistol and arrested him. This morning Raymond appeared in court and pleaded not guilty to Keeping a Firearm without a License and was remanded to prison until February second. However, his attorney Dickie Bradley is saying that the gun his client was found with belongs to a Special Constable who has a license for the weapon. Bradley is additionally claiming that the charges are punishment by a senior superintendent because Raymond has refused to cooperate with the police’s request for information on the Coye family, charged for money laundering.