By Racquel Porter
Kevin Bent, the St. Catherine businessman who was arrested and charged following the seizure of an illegal firearm at a traffic stop in Old Harbour in March, was offered $2.5 million bail on Friday morning.
Mr. Bent is to return to court on June 14.
His bail comes a week after his attorneys Donahue Martin and Tom Tavares-Finson made the application in the Gun Court Division of the Supreme Court.
Allegations are that on March 1, the police were on an operation along Darlington Drive in Old Harbour, St. Catherine when a Honda CR-V sport utility vehicle driven by the accused was stopped.
The police searched a bag that was on the front passenger seat was searched.
A nine-millimetre pistol with a magazine containing 10 rounds of ammunition was discovered.
Mr. Bent was arrested and subsequently charged.
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