A passenger on the Disney Magic cruise ship who brought bullets into the country was fined $750 yesterday.

Tourist Carl Sturges, from Pennsylvania, said the ammunition was in the pocket of a jacket he brought with him and that he had forgotten it was there.

Magistrates’ Court heard that customs officers found three bullets in the jacket, which was in Sturges’s bag as he boarded the Disney Magic cruise ship on Sunday afternoon.

Police were contacted and Sturges was taken to Somerset Police Station, where he admitted the offence. He pleaded guilty to three charges of possession of ammunition.

The 56-year-old said he had a firearms licence in Pennsylvania, but not a licence to bring ammunition into Bermuda.

Elizabeth Christopher, Sturges’s defence lawyer, told magistrate Tyrone Chin that the defendant was remorseful.

She added: “He wouldn’t have willingly broken our laws.”

Sturges added: “It was a mistake. I could not feel the weight of the rounds in my pocket.

“I did not mean to bring them with me.”

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