Man questioned for robbery, hands over gun

The Gun Amnesty Program is scheduled to end on October thirty-first, but a Belize City man who did not hand in his, is facing eight years in jail for an unlicensed gun and ammunition. Eighteen year old Floyd Hyde was picked up by police on Monday, October thirteenth, to be interrogated about a robbery. While at the Queen Street Police Station, Hyde took off one of his tennis shoes revealing a point thirty-two caliber pistol that contained six rounds in its magazine. Hyde promptly handed over the weapon to the police not realizing that being caught with a gun is not the same as handing over a gun. On Tuesday October fourteenth, Hyde pleaded guilty to the charges of keeping a firearm and ammunition without a gun license when he appeared in the Number One Magistrate’s Court. He was sentenced to three years for each count because he already has a previous conviction for firearm and ammunition offenses. And as it turned out Hyde had not paid a five thousand dollars fine for his previous weapons offense, so the judge awarded him an additional two years in prison which will run consecutively to his current sentence of six years.