MONTEGO BAY, St James - Donovan Nelson, a Kingston businessman, was bound over last week after he appeared in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court on a charge of negligently losing his firearm after he said it was stolen from his vehicle during the recent jazz festival in Montego Bay.

Nelson, who was represented by attorney-at -law Valerie Neita-Robinson, is alleged to have placed his licensed firearm, two magazines and 14 rounds of 9mm ammunition in a bag and put them behind the driver's seat of his motor vehicle for safe keeping about 8:00 pm on January 25.

He had driven from Kingston to the western city to attend the international music festival and stopped at a friend's house in the Ironshore area for directions to the Coral Gardens Police Station where he hoped to leave his firearm for safekeeping.

Upon coming out of the house however, the court heard that Nelson saw the roof light of his vehicle on and then found out that someone had broken into the vehicle by breaking a back glass.

Several items including the bag with the gun, the court heard, were stolen.

The matter was reported to the Coral Gardens police and he was then charged.

Nelson will return to court on May 2 when the case will be tried.

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