Jamaican man living in Hoover charged with being illegal alien in possession of a gun

HOOVER, Ala. (WBRC) – Federal prosecutors are charging a man from Jamaica living in Hoover with being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm.

Homeland Security investigators say Sherwin Rowe tried to buy a gun from a Birmingham firearms dealer on July 31, but was denied.

Investigators say Rowe overstayed a nonimmigrant visa that expired on November 30, 2024, but say he falsely said on the firearms form he filled out while trying to buy a gun that he wasn’t an illegal alien and wasn’t in the country on a nonimmigrant visa…

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