Twen­ty-six-year-old Shaquille Joseph was de­nied bail when he ap­peared be­fore a Cou­va Mag­is­trate charged with im­port­ing a cache of weapons.  

These weapons in­clud­ed, nine-high pow­ered ri­fles, 23 am­mu­ni­tion mag­a­zines, three ri­fle bar­rels, one si­lencer, one dou­ble bar­rel drum and oth­er firearm ac­ces­sories.  

Ac­cord­ing to a re­lease by the Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion he was ar­rest­ed by cus­toms of­fi­cers on De­cem­ber 29th. 

Joseph was al­so charged with pack­ing the weapons in a man­ner to de­ceive of­fi­cers. Both charges were laid in­dictably and he was not called up­on to plead. He is ex­pect­ed to reap­pear in court on Jan­u­ary 31st.