CLARENDON:
EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD, Cleve Blair, was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment at hard labour on gun charges, when he appeared in the Clarendon Circuit Court last Friday.
Blair, of Halse Hall, Clarendon, was charged with two counts of illegal possession of firearm, robbery with aggravation and illegal possession of ammunition.
The Court was told that Blair went to a house in the Mineral Heights Housing Scheme where he held up the occupant of the house with two guns and stole $3,000 in cash. However, the accused was surprised by a policeman who is the brother of the occupant of the house and was in another room. A struggle developed between the two and Blair was shot in the foot with one of his own guns.
The guns, a .38 Smith and Wesson revolver and a Ruger 9mm semi-automatic pistol, both loaded were taken from him.
He was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for two counts of illegal possession of firearm; 15 years on the charge of robbery with aggravation; and five years for illegal possession of ammunition. Blair will, however, serve only 15 years as the charges are to run concurrently.
