Kareem A. Durante aka Blocker gets 7 years prison sentence
He received seven years for the fire arm possession charge and six months for the possession of ammunitions charge.
Durante was sentenced recently by Magistrate Ayana Baptist-DaBreo who told him that his previous convictions erased the possibility of any consideration of her imposing a non-custodial sentence. This she said as his mother in a previous court appearance pleaded with the court to be lenient with her son.
The mother had told the court that her home was search several times before and never did police officers find any firearm. In this instance her son had feared for his life as he was shot, resulting in him being hospitalised in a serious condition on May 16, 2016.
Police uncovered a 99mm handgun and a 45 caliber handgun, along with ammunition, at the residence of Durante while conducting investigations into the disappearance of Devern Stanley aka Snoopy who was then reported missing. Stanley has since been found dead.
A cry from the heart
A relative close to Durante, in discourse with this news site, said the family is saddened by Blocker’s misfortunes. She said it was pointed out in court back in 2010, during his sentencing for armed robbery, Justice Rita Joseph-Olivetti had said in a social inquiry report that he Durante was a young man crying out for help at an early age. He was 21 years of age at that time.
“My cousin was so prepared to take his life in a different direction. He is a very loving and lovable persons. He has a very good heart and he was among the top ones who graduated from the partnership for peace programme while he was previously in prison,” said the relative.
Durante was among nine other inmates who completed a sixteen-week Partnership for Peace course at Her Majesty's Prison.
Following the graduation ceremony, Durante had challenged young men not to get involved in anything that would land them in prison as it was not a good place to be. “Stop the violence and robberies, choose to work hard and for an honest dollar. It will help in the end,” he had said.
“He back there now is really hard for him. He is not happy. He is taking it really hard and we are praying from him because he is really a good guy. He wants good for his life but these thing keep following him. I don’t know why. I pray God hears his heart’s cry,” the relative told this news site.
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and !!!!!!! did. The only thing is, !!!!!!! and !!!!!!! is still walking the streets.
Karma, Karma, Karma. What goes around comes all the way back around.