Dr. Jailed For Possession of Handgun

NASSAU, BAHAMAS – A doctor was on Friday jailed for six months for possession of an illegal handgun.

Dr. Gregory Tynes, who works at the Princess Margaret Hospital, will spend an additional three months behind bars if he doesn’t pay a $500 fine for an ammunition possession charge.

He was also fined $4,500 for possession of 2 5/8 ounces of marijuana. The default sentence of six months for failing to pay the fine will be served at the same time as the six-month jail term on the gun charge.

Back on July 25, 2021, police officers executed a search warrant on the doctor’s childhood home in Garden Hills.

While searching a bedroom, the officers found a 9mm pistol loaded with seven rounds of ammunition wrapped in a shirt. They also also found 2 5/8 ounces of marijuana on the dresser in addition to $10,135 in a safe in the closet.

At his trial before Magistrate Samuel McKinney, Tynes denied knowledge of the contraband; however, he said the money belonged to him.

In his testimony, Tynes said that he had moved in with his girlfriend in 2020 and was no longer a resident of the home, although he was there when the police came to search.

Tynes said he had given his friend, Aristo Stubbs, to live in the home rent-free, provided that he maintained the premises.

Stubbs testified on Tynes’ behalf and claimed that the drugs and gun belonged to him.

However, the magistrate didn’t believe this and he convicted Tynes of the offenses.

Tynes was graduated from the University of the West Indies in 2011 and he won the Dr. Mortimer Moxey award for community medicine.