NASSAU – A man and his girlfriend who smuggled eight guns and 85 rounds of ammunition into the country from the United States have been jailed.
Police got a tip that Keith Higgs and his Jamaican girlfriend Abigail Nelson were going to pick up the guns on February 7.
So, officers from the Firearms Unit and CIB took up surveillance at DASH Express on East Street South.
After Higgs and Nelson took the packages to their home in White’s Addition, police moved in and seized seven pistols and an assault rifle.
Higgs told police that his cousin had shipped the guns to him and that he had asked his girlfriend to pick up the packages.
Higgs pleaded guilty to possession of a prohibited weapon, importation of firearms and ammunition, plus possession of firearms and ammunition with intent to supply when he appeared before Magistrate Samuel McKinney.
He was jailed for five years and fined $20,000. If he doesn’t pay the fine, he will spend an additional year in prison.
Meanwhile, Nelson pleaded guilty to possession of firearms and ammunition with intent to supply and she was sentenced to two years in prison.
