Tourist fined after failing to declare Magnun handgun after arriving via ferry

A church leader from Alabama was fined in provincial court Thursday after failing to declare that he was traveling with a gun when he and his wife rolled off the Cat ferry in Yarmouth in their motor home on Tuesday.

The gun that border agents found inside the American tourist’s motor home was a .357-calibre Magnum handgun. It was located inside an overhead compartment.

James Yarbro, 67, of Guntersville, Alabama was fined a total $1,000.

Of that amount $500 was for pleading guilty to a federal Customs Act charge of failing to report a gun, the other $500 fine was on a charge of careless and unsafe storage of a firearm. The Yarmouth RCMP had laid that charge.

A charge of making a false statement to a border agent was withdrawn by the Crown.

Yarbro was required to pay another $1,000 to get back his motor home, which had been seized at the ferry terminal in Yarmouth.

The court was told Yarbro was asked twice whether he had any weapons or firearms in his vehicle. The first time he was asked was through a written declaration that ferry passengers are required to fill out at sea, the second time was on shore when he was asked by a customs agent.

The man and his wife headed back home on the Cat Thursday afternoon.