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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Ex-US soldier fined for trying to take gun on plane

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

A retired U.S. Army soldier was fined $400 and given a suspended jail sentence Thursday for attempting to carry a gun and ammunition onto a plane in Zimbabwe.

Retired Sgt. Maj. Ronald Leon Johnson had been held in the renowned Chikurubi Prison for more than a week after he was arrested Feb. 15 at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe Airport in the capital, Harare.

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