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Police said an intelligence-led operation was conducted in Kitty, Georgetown at about 05:30 hours today (Wednesday, July 24th, 2024), during which a total of 26 handguns and high-powered rifles, along with a cache of ammunition, were found. Six persons have been arrested and are in custody assisting with the investigation. The police team, led by a superintendent, went to Lot ...

Police Wednesday morning seized several guns that were in a car parked outside the then residence of Ricardo “Paper Shorts” Fagundes in March, 2021, sources confirmed. Three persons, including two women, were transported from the scene by police, according to a source. Police, in several vehicles, swooped down on the Sandy Babb Street, Kitty, Georgetown location and seized the weapons. ...

The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) on Friday said its agents seized three rifles, ammunition and cocaine at two separate locations in the county of Demerara, and so far two persons were arrested. CANU agents said they found one 7.62 assault rifle and two brick-like parcels of cocaine weighing 2.3 kilogrammes in an unfinished house at Premniranjan Place, Prashad Nagar. The ...

Three Chinese persons were Tuesday arrested at a city hotel and GY$39 million as well as a handgun and ammunition were seized, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) said. Investigators suspected that the trio was “part of a transnational criminal group involved in gold smuggling and other illegal activities.” In a statement titled “criminal network dismantled”, the GPF said the two ...

Police say they have arrested seven men and hauled in a high-powered gun, a silencer and several rounds of ammunition from a business place opposite Merriman’s Mall in the vicinity of Bourda Market. Officially, police did not name the location but News-Talk Radio Guyana 103.1 FM/Demerara Waves Online News was told that the entity operates a security company and a ...