Visitor fined $12k for ammo in baggage

An American visitor has been fined $12 000 for possessing 15 rounds of ammunition without a valid permit, in a case that prompted his defence attorney to question airport screening procedures after the ammunition was detected only as the visitor prepared to leave Barbados.

Chadwick Jerome Wright, of Ledgerock Way, Durham, North Carolina, was ordered to pay the fine immediately for the offence committed on October 14.

The No.3 Supreme Court heard that Wright and his wife had come to the island to celebrate his 50th birthday and stayed at a hotel. Airport personnel discovered the ammunition in his baggage as he prepared to return home. Police were called, and he was arrested and charged.