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Ricarrdo McKenzie of Sutherlands
By Zaya Williams
Riccardo McKenzie, a 28-year-old Jamaican citizen, has been sentenced to one year and eight months in prison in Antigua after pleading guilty to illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition.
On Monday authorities discovered a loaded 9mm automatic pistol and seven rounds of matching ammunition in plain sight in a vehicle McKenzie was traveling in.
He was accompanied by O’Neil Swaby, a 34-year-old fellow Jamaican national.
Both men were initially arrested and charged. However, McKenzie took the blame.
However, Swaby did not escape consequences. He was deported from Antigua the day following the arrest.
Send him home after he serve his sentence
Is this with or without hard labour? Hopefully this scumbag will be repatriated immediately upon comedian of his sentence. It just irks me to think that our taxpayers will be expected to pay for his accommodation at 1735
This man need to be deported after he do his time. Send um bk to his homeland let him face the consequences bk there
If they’re going to deport him after,they should jus send him to his home land
He pleaded guilty so that helped him out
2 years for the gun,as if that not enough to set the example