Two charged after pistol, ammunition seized in Kingston

A man known to lawmen as ‘Baddas’ and ‘Bad Rat’ and a woman have been charged after police seized a pistol and seven rounds of ammunition during a search of a Kingston 20 premises.

The accused are 45-year-old Andy Kirk Hasphaul, otherwise called ‘Baddas’ and ‘Bad Rat’, and 49-year-old Lavern Natasha Pascoe, both of Riverside Drive.

The two were charged with possession of a prohibited weapon and unauthorised possession of ammunition following a police operation on Saturday, October 10.

Reports from the Duhaney Park police are that about 9 a.m., a team from the St Andrew South Policing Division went to the one-bedroom premises armed with a search warrant and acting on intelligence.

The police were reportedly searching for Hasphaul when they encountered

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