Hooded GDF Lance Corporal, others caught with gun, ammo

Last Updated on Saturday, 5 December 2015, 18:14 by GxMedia

Police said that at about 1030h. today Saturday December 05, 2015, police ranks on “Operation Dragnet” stopped a motor vehicle with obscure number plates at Regent Street and Avenue of the Republic, Georgetown.

Investigators said a search was conducted during which an unlicensed sawn-off pump action shotgun and an unlicensed .38 revolver with six matching rounds were found.

The vehicle was being driven by a Lance Corporal of the Guyana Defence Force who was dressed in uniform and a hood. He and three other men who were in the vehicle have been arrested and are in police custody assisting with the investigations.