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Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Man in US$.5m bust on gun, ammo charges

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The 51-year-old man who was al­leged­ly held last week­end with over half-a-mil­lion US dol­lars in cash ap­peared in court yes­ter­day charged with pos­ses­sion of a Tec-9 au­to­mat­ic gun and 75 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion.Derek Beres­ford-Coop­er ap­peared be­fore Se­nior Mag­is­trate In­drani Ce­de­no and was grant­ed $250,000 bail for the weapon and am­mu­ni­tion.

No charges were laid against him for the cash. He will re-ap­pear in court on Au­gust 5.The mon­ey, amount­ing to US$500,000, was seized from a car in San Juan by the North­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force on Sat­ur­day.

Po­lice said Beres­ford-Coop­er was al­leged­ly held with the gun, am­mu­ni­tion and cash around 12.15 am af­ter Nor�th­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force po­lice, co-or­di­nat­ed by Se­nior Supt David Abra�ham and head­ed by In­sp Mark Ma­haraj and Sgt Hare­wood, stopped a blue Nis­san Navara pick­up in Nicholasville, San Juan.Af­ter search­ing the car they found the gun and am­mu­ni­tion in a suit­case in the back seat with the cash be­neath.


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