Ramoamasagana “Masa” Pemberton was sentenced to two years in prison for possession of an unlicensed firearm on Thursday at the Road Town Police Station.
Magistrate Ayanna Baptiste-DaBreo also gave Mr. Pemberton a three-year suspended sentence, or probationary period, for the offence.
For his second charge, possession of ammunition, Mr. Pemberton was given six months in prison, which will run concurrently with his other sentence.
Mr. Pemberton, who ran the entertainment website and YouTube channel Krazy Hype, was first charged with the firearm-related offences last year.
At one of his earlier court appearances, Crown Counsel O’Neil Simpson claimed that police found a case containing a loaded nine-millimetre Glock handgun with an extended magazine near Mr. Pemberton’s residence in Purcell Estate on April 21, 2016.
Mr. Simpson said police later searched the defendant’s home, but found nothing illegal. Mr. Pemberton, however, voluntarily agreed to be fingerprinted and his prints matched those found on the gun, according to the prosecution.
He was then arrested and charged.
Defence attorney Valarie Stephens-Gordon, who was representing Mr. Pemberton at the time, claimed her client had come across the case and inspected its contents, but opted not to inform police because he was afraid of getting involved in the matter.
Possessing an unlicensed firearm carries a minimum penalty of five years in prison, or a $50,000 fine, but Ms. Baptiste-DaBreo stated on Thursday that the “peculiar circumstances” of Mr. Pemberton’s case warranted a more lenient sentence.