Police seized housebreaking implements from a car after a civilian ordered two men out of the vehicle at gunpoint, a court heard yesterday. Sidney Hart, 29, of Johnson Road, and Tiko Smith, 24, of Johnson Alley, pleaded guilty to possession of housebreaking implements and vagrancy at their arraignment before Assistant Chief Magistrate Subusola Swain.

The court heard that two men, who, while working on a building on Oceanview Drive, West Bay Street, noticed a Nissan Cube near the property after they returned from a hardware store.

They saw when a man ran from the car. However, on closer inspection, they noticed two other men crouched in the car.

That’s when one of the men got his licensed shotgun and ordered the men out of the car and detained them until police arrived.

The officers found a bolt cutter, pliers, screwdriver, gloves and ski masks inside of the car.

On the charge of possession of housebreaking implements, Swain sentenced Hart, who has prior convictions, to 18 months in prison, while Smith was sentenced to six months in prison.

They were each sentenced to 14 days on the vagrancy charge.

Inspector Lincoln McKenzie was the prosecutor.

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