Home raid turns up possible murder weapon

A Belize City musician is singing “Jail House Rock” tonight after cops found an unlicensed gun in his bedroom closet. But as serious as that charge is, twenty-eight year old Ernest Young may have bigger trouble on his hands because police believe the firearm has been used as a murder weapon. Acting on a tip, on Thursday police raided Young’s Jane Usher Boulevard home where they say they found a nine millimetre handgun and fifteen rounds of ammunition. Since ballistic reports have yet to connect the weapon to a previous crime, Young was only charged with Keeping an Unlicensed Firearm and Ammunition in Magistrates’ Court this morning. He pled not guilty to both offences. Young has been remanded to the Hattieville Prison until May twenty-eighth.

In related news, police tell News Five that after they left Young’s residence on Thursday, they searched an empty lot on the same street and found fifty rounds of AK47 ammunition hidden in the high grass.