– to know fate today

Lieutenant Colonel Tony Ross will know his fate today after a military  jury late last night found him guilty of failing to effectively manage the army’s weapons store resulting in the theft of 30 high-powered rifles and five pistols two years ago. 

Ross was charged with four counts of negligence of duty for the theft of the weapons, but he was freed of two of the charges, which were more administrative in nature. Judge Advocate Oslen Small, who presided over the case is expected to hand down his sentence today, Attorney-at-law Leslie Sobers, who represented Ross, told Stabroek News last night……