Despite having a “rusty”, inoperable pipe gun, Darwin St Alban Crookendale will have to pay the court $1 000 in one month if he wants to avoid a one-year prison term.Appearing before Justice Carlisle Greaves in the No. 3 Supreme Court on Monday, the 60-year-old carpenter of Taitt Hill, St George, pleaded guilty to possession of a pipe gun without a valid licence on March 17, 2020.Outlining the facts, Principal State Counsel Neville Watson said police searched Crookendale’s residence around 3:50 a.m. on the date in question. After nothing was found inside the house, the officers searched the makeshift garage and found the weapon under several sheets of concrete board stacked against the wall.When asked about it, he replied, “I don’t know what that is. I only stack them sheets there.”Further in the interview, when he was asked who made the firearm, Crookendale said, “If you go back inside, you would see my welding plant I does use to do my work.” He later told officers that he could not recall when he had made the gun.
