And in other news from Belize Rural, a 60 year old farmer is in jail tonight - all because he was using his dead uncle's shotgun for hunting.
60 year old Stephen Flowers, a farmer of Burrell Boom Village was busted with a 12 gauge shotgun and seven live rounds of ammunition on Tuesday, November 19th as he walked along the road with the firearm in his hand.
When police stopped him, he ran and jumped into the nearby bushes. The cop chased after him and found him hiding about 15 feet off the road. Police say when elderly man was caught he told them, "Yuh caught meh boss. The rest of the shotgun in meh bag. Ah got it from my uncle who passed away years ago."
Flowers was unrepresented in court today and was read two criminal offenses of kept firearm and kept ammunition without a gun license- which are remand offenses. He will return to court on January 8th.
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