Magistrate Flowers also ordered that Aldana pay $250.00 fine by October 31, 2004, and continue to pay $250.00 at the end of each month, until the fine is paid.

The 12-gauge shotgun was found at Aldana?s house by the police when they searched it on March 26, 2004. Two police officers testified that the shotgun was found under Aldana?s bed.

Before the police found the shotgun, Aldana showed them his guns, a .22 calibre pistol and a 9-millimeter pistol, and gave them the licences for his guns.

Aldana testified that he did not know that the licence for Bowman?s gun had expired. He said Bowman asked him to keep the shotgun at his house because he (Bowman) did not want to walk with it to his residence on North Park Street.

Bowman, who testified, corroborated Aldana?s testimony that he (Aldana) did not know that the licence for the shotgun had expired. Bowman said the licence for his shotgun expired on June 15, 2003, and he had not renewed it.

At the time the police found the shotgun, three other persons, who were in the house with Aldana, were charged jointly with him. They included his son, Levan Aldana, 18, and two Hondurans, Carmen Aguilar, 22, and a 16-year-old female minor, who is a high school student. They were acquitted of the charge because there was not enough evidence against them.

The four who were in the house were also charged with 2 counts of keeping unlicensed ammunition in connection with the police?s discovery of two sets of ammunition when they searched Alfredo Aldana?s house on March 26.

In a white envelope under a bed, the police found 18 rounds of .25 calibre ammunition. Police also discovered 8 rounds of 30-30 ammunition under the bed.

The charges were withdrawn against Alfredo Aldana and the two females after Levan Aldana pleaded guilty to them on March 26, when they were arraigned in the #2 Magistrate?s Court.

Levan was fined $10,000.00 for each count. In default of payment of the $20,000.00, he will serve consecutive prison terms of 1 year each.

Yesterday, Magistrate Flowers ordered that the shotgun be returned to James Bowman, because Bowman has renewed the licence for the gun.