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Student caught with ammunition at Victoria Falls International Airport  

By VicFallsLive

A Harare-based student has been fined $50 000 after he was found with ammunition in his luggage at the Victoria Falls International Airport.

Bryan Reagan Arnold from Chisipite was arrested while checking in for a fastjet flight at 9AM on October 8, Victoria Falls resident magistrate Godswill Mavenge was told.

Prosecutor Portia Moyo said an Airports Company of Zimbabwe employee, Daniel Sibanda, saw a suspicious image in one of Arnold’s bags while scanning it.

Sibanda summoned the student to observe the screening machine in the company of police officer Eventhough Moto.

“Nine 308 millimetres live rounds, one. 416 live round and five. 380mm empty cartridges were found,” Moyo said.

“The accused was not authorised to be in the possession of the ammunition.”

Arnold, however, told the court that the ammunition belonged to his father who had previously used the bag.

“The ammunition was put in the bag by my father, who had been using it previously,” he said in a recorded statement.

“When l took the bag l did not search thoroughly so l did not notice that my father had left his ammunition in there.”

Mavenge accepted his defence and fined Arnold $50 000 or 30 days in jail.

The magistrate also considered that he was a first time offender.

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