Sacha Wil­son

Two Colom­bian na­tion­als are ex­pect­ed to be sen­tenced on Mon­day af­ter they plead­ed guilty to pos­ses­sion of two guns and 19 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion yes­ter­day.

Joint­ly charged with them, is a Trinida­di­an who plead­ed not guilty and was grant­ed $150,000 bail to cov­er all the charges. Colom­bians Diego Fer­nan­do Cas­tano Ver­gara and Wil­son Geo­van­ny Or­tiz, along with Christo­pher Mc Dow­ell, of Ed­in­burgh, Ch­agua­nas, ap­peared be­fore Mag­is­trate Ava­son Quin­lan in the Point Fortin First Mag­is­trates' Court.

The Colom­bians had no le­gal rep­re­sen­ta­tion and could not speak Eng­lish. Through a span­ish in­ter­preter, po­lice pros­e­cu­tor In­spec­tor Ro­han Par­dasie said around 6.30 pm on Tues­day PC Solomon and oth­er of­fi­cers were on pa­trol along South­ern Cen­tral Road, Point Fortin when they in­ter­cept­ed a car.

The two for­eign­ers, Par­dasie said, were the back seat pas­sen­gers. On search­ing the car, the po­lice found an As­tra pis­tol, a shot­gun, 11 rounds of 12-gauge am­mu­ni­tion and eight rounds of 7.65 am­mu­ni­tion. The mag­is­trate ad­journed the case to Mon­day to al­low the po­lice time to de­ter­mine whether the Colom­bians had any pre­vi­ous con­vic­tions or pend­ing mat­ters. Mc Dow­ell would al­so reap­pear in court on Mon­day.