Radford Lawrence of College Street, Green Bay, and O’Marie Nedd of Potters
were each fined $12,000 on separate firearm and ammunition offences in the St.
Johns Magistrate’s Court. Lawrence was fined $5000 for unlawful possession of a
firearm and $7,000 for unlawful possession of ammunition.
On March 21, the police executed a search warrant on a property occupied by
Lawrence in St. Johnson’s Village and found a modified flare gun, along with
several different caliber rounds of ammunition, including three .380 rounds, three
9mm rounds, one .45mm round and a spent .32mm shell. He was taken into
custody and charged.
Meanwhile, O’Marie Nedd was fined $10,000 for unlawful possession of a 9mm
pistol and $2,000 for two matching rounds of ammunition. On Monday, 8 April
around 1:40 am, members of the Special Services Unit (SSU) were on patrol duty
in the city, when they saw Nedd on Corn Alley behaving suspiciously. As the
officers approached him he ran and they gave chase and eventually caught him
with the illegal weapon. He was taken into custody and charged.
Both men appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Dexter Wason on Tuesday, 9
April, and were given three months to pay the fines or serve three months at His
Majesty’s Prison.
