Richard Kissoon, a 27-year-old gold miner of Bartica, Region Seven (Cuyuni–Mazaruni), was arrested at approximately 01:30h on Sunday after being found with 15 rounds of ammunition.
Police reported that ranks on mobile patrol duty in the vicinity of 3rd Avenue, Bartica observed a heavily tinted Toyota Rush motor vehicle, PVV 3605, which they stopped.
“The ranks then requested to conduct a search for illegal items, to which he [the driver] agreed. One of the ranks searched him, and found in his right hand a bulky parcel wrapped in white paper and transparent scotch tape. He opened the parcel and found fifteen .32 rounds of ammunition,” Police said.
The ammunition that was found on Sunday morning in Bartica
The man was told of the offence committed, and was arrested and escorted to the Bartica Police Station, where he remains in custody pending charges.
This arrest comes more than a month after 57-year-old businessman Carl Reddy of Second Avenue, Bartica was apprehended during a Police operation at Kumung Kumung Landing, Puruni River and charged with unlawful possession of ammunition.
When Reddy’s vehicle was searched, a staggering 428 live rounds of ammunition and eight different weapons were discovered, leading to him being charged despite his having licence for a 12-gauge Browning single-barrel shotgun.
Reddy pleaded not guilty before Magistrate Crystal Lambert at the Bartica Magistrate’s Court, but has been remanded to prison. (G9)
