Police Sergeant Karim Warner, who was recently convicted of unlawfully discharging his firearm in public, has begun serving his one-year prison sentence at the special correctional facility located at the former U.S. Pan Am Base in Coolidge.
Warner, 37, was sentenced last Friday in the Magistrate’s Court after being found guilty earlier in the week of firing twelve rounds at a vehicle occupied by two people. The court described his actions as an abuse of authority and noted that the gunfire caused damage to the victims’ vehicle and left them traumatized.
One of the victims, in a statement to the court, said the incident left them gripped with “sheer terror.”
According to prison officials, Warner is being housed at the Pan Am Base facility for his own safety and well-being, given the high-profile nature of his case and his status as a law enforcement officer.
The facility, which was adapted for limited prison use, has several converted rooms now serving as cells and offers more secure and sanitary conditions than those at His Majesty’s Prison at 1735.
Warner is reportedly one of only two inmates being held at the Coolidge site. The other is a UK national serving a sentence for rape under a bilateral arrangement between the governments of Antigua and Barbuda and the United Kingdom.
In delivering the sentence, the magistrate acknowledged several mitigating factors in Warner’s favor, including his previously clean record, positive service history, and cooperation with authorities following the incident. The court also recognized his potential for rehabilitation, noting that while the maximum penalty for the offence is two years, a one-year sentence was deemed fair and proportionate.
The case has drawn widespread attention, given Warner’s role within the police force and the broader conversation it has sparked about accountability and use of force within law enforcement.
Nothing to shaken up if I had to tell you the truth!! Guess he’s too civilized for 1735 but at the end of the day crime is crime, and maybe these officers need a little beating in prison to tell a testimony
Do they actually go to that base? Or they just stay in hiding for the duration of the sentence???
They go to the base but they still living large
LOL. Just say the man walk free. Yall nasty and wicked in this country
He needs to go 1735 and act like he did when he had the government weapon and in their uniform, so he tried to kill a man and this is the punishment 1year by Easter the guy out watch and see … BULL CRAP …… bout high profile since when little snatty nose boy that jus hurry push up in the force became high profile…
The boy was a corporal that does fly pass he nest way this sergeant talk come from Chrups
Serving his sentencing at the former American Base is not punishment. Those rooms are fully air conditioning, private bathroom with hot & cold water shower, cable TV, carpet floor, clothes closet, clothes dresser drawers, microwave, refrigerator, full-size bed, etc… As a former employee of the Antigua Air Base for 25 years until the Base operation ended in July 2015. If the maintenance of these living quarters are kept up, ex-officer Karim Warner will be spending his one year prison sentence in a luxury room.
P:S. I have pictures of inside all the rooms I took in July 2025.
I guess they don’t want him close to his brother Karl Warner.
The public deserves an explanation.Justice should be equal rank shouldn’t change where you serve your sentence.
Sooooo you mean to tell me that a police sergeant fires twelve bullets at civilians and only gets one year? That’s justice? Ordinary people would’ve been locked away for years!
And now he’s being kept in a ‘special’ facility with better conditions? So the man with a gun gets comfort while the victims live with trauma?
Police officers should be held to a higher standard, not a lighter sentence. This is exactly why people are losing trust in the system
If it was the other way around a civilian firing at police they’d throw away the key. The double standard is sickening.”
I am proud of you Antigua for enforcing the law and sending the message that no one is above the law. Now if you could a little or a lot more finding and incarcerating the criminals roaming your streets, that would put so many people’s minds at ease.
The rapists
Armed robbers
Drug smugglers
Murders.
One year for firing at a car with people inside? The victims could’ve died! What message does this send to the public?
Nonsense this it have police officers who were remanded and are serving sentences at HMP. Remember Nelson was at their headquarters and he was transferred to prison so who this one yah be so. Safety my foot. Big dutty Chrups
Abuse of power, plain and simple. The people who are supposed to protect us are turning into the threat. This is disgraceful
Justice should be equal for everyone rank shouldn’t determine where a sentence is served.
If it was the other way around a civilian firing at police they’d throw away the key. The double standard is sickening.