Gun, ammo found in DVD player
THREE men were arrested Wednesday after officers from the Area One Police in Montego Bay and the Jamaica Customs’ Contraband Enforcement Team (CET) seized a Taurus semi-automatic pistol and 100 rounds of ammunition that arrived through a FedEx shipment at the Sangster International Airport.
One of the men was the consignee, police said.
An informed source told the Observer that the weapon, which had its serial number erased, and the ammunition were concealed in a DVD player, but were detected by the new x-ray machines installed at the ports. The shipment, the source said, originated from Stone Mountain in Georgia, United States. The items were declared as a DVD player and “new and worn clothing”.
The three men, who had travelled in a Nissan Sunny motor car to the Sangster International Airport, were arrested when they went to clear the shipment. They had a seven year-old child with them.
It was the second such shipment in which contraband has been detected within a week.
“One 9mm pistol with magazine was detected in a video cassette recorder which arrived at the Central Sorting Office in Kingston,” the Observer source said. “The person who came to clear the shipment presented a voters’ ID but managed to escape,” he said.
That shipment originated from Florida and arrived in the island on July 28.
The recent find brings to eight the number of weapons detected by the CET since the start of the year. The CET has also seized 729 rounds of ammunition shipped to the island. All the weapons and ammunition have originated from various locations within the United States.
