A 27-year-old male resident of St. Michael, Barbados has been ordered into pre-trial custody at a state prison following his initial court appearance in a weapons-related criminal case. The defendant, Trasuon Romario Roger Alleyne, who lives in the Morris Gap neighborhood along Westbury Road, was taken into police custody and formally charged by investigators from the Barbados Police Service’s elite Serious Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) on April 30. The two charges against him include illegal possession of a firearm and unlawful possession of 26 rounds of live ammunition.
Alleyne made his first court appearance this week on Monday, May 4, before Chief Magistrate Douglas Frederick at the District ‘A’ Criminal Court No. 1. Under the island nation’s legal procedures for serious indictable offenses, Alleyne was not required to enter a formal plea during this initial hearing. Following the brief proceeding, the Chief Magistrate ordered that Alleyne be remanded to the custody of the Barbados Prison Service at the Dodds Correctional Facility, where he will remain behind bars leading up to his next court date.
The case has been formally transferred from the initial criminal court to the District ‘A’ Traffic Court, with the next procedural hearing scheduled for June 1. As the legal process moves forward, no additional details about the circumstances of the alleged weapons possession or any other context surrounding the arrest have been released by law enforcement officials as of this reporting.