Denver Melville.
PRESS RELEASE (updated) - On Sunday, May 30, 2015 the police formally charged 29-year-old Denver Melville of Reduit, Gros-Islet for the offence of possession of firearm.
Melville made a court appearance before the First District Court on Monday, June 1, 2015 where he was granted bail.
The bail conditions are as follows: bail set at EC$5000.00, suitable surety or land document.
He is ordered to report to the Gros Islet Police Station daily at the hours of 9:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.
Melville is also assigned to a curfew between the hours of 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. daily and should not be within 100 yards of the Friday Night Gros Islet Street Party.
Melville was charged in connection with a shooting incident which occurred on Friday, May 29, 2015, about 2:05 a.m. on Dauphin Street, Gros-Islet.
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A man who was shot by police in Gros Islet on Friday (May 29) and subsequently charged with possession of a firearm was granted bail in the sum of $5,000.
Denver Melville, 29, of Reduit, Gros-Islet made his first appearance at the Magistrate’s Court in Castries today, where the charged was read to him.
Melville was subsequently placed on bail.
He was represented by Attorney-at-Law Alberton Richelieu.
He is expected to make another court appearance soon.
Sources told St. Lucia News Online (SNO) that the 29-year-old man could face additional charges.
Meville sustained a gunshot wound to his left calf following a shooting incident near a bar in the northern town which left four other people nursing gunshot wounds.
He is one of two suspects in that shooting.
The other man is currently hospitalised.
