Police ranks from Regional Division 4’C’ (East Coast Demerara) have nabbed a 34-year-old vendor of Vigilance, ECD with a Glock-17 9mm pistol and two matching rounds of ammunition. The serial number of this pistol could not be found.
At the time on mobile patrol duty in Friendship, ECD on Saturday at about 01:56h, the Police ranks saw Colwin Barnwell, called ‘Timmo’, standing with a black plastic bag in his hand. Police say that upon seeing the ranks, Barnwell started to walk away, and was told to stop, but instead broke into a run. The ranks gave chase, and he was caught.
Suspect: Colwin Barnwell
Ranks conducted a search on his person and unearthed the pistol and ammunition in his pants crotch. Asked if he was a licensed firearm holder, Barnwell replied in the negative. Told of the offence committed and cautioned, he claimed that he bought the firearm when he was in the interior at Aranka, Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni).
Barnwell was thus arrested and escorted to Vigilance Police Station along with the firearm and ammunition, where it was sealed and lodged, and the suspect was placed into custody pending charges.
Last Friday, at around 05:15h, ranks of the Sparendaam Police Station, acting on information received, went to a two-bedroom house at Robert Road, Plaisance and conducted a search. In the presence of the two occupants they found there (a 30-year-old labourer and a 23-year-old plumber who resides next door) they unearthed a 12-gauge double-barrel shotgun with no serial number, and four (4) live matching cartridges. These items were found in the first bedroom of the house.
Asked if they were licensed firearm holders, the suspects opted to remain silent. They were then told of the offence committed, cautioned, and arrested.
On the previous day (Thursday, January 5, 2023), ranks of the Police Force’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Special Patrol of Regional Division 4 ‘A’ managed to recover two high-powered assault weapons and ammo during an operation in Norton Street, Georgetown.
The gun that the Police found
The CID ranks were on patrol duty within the vicinity of Norton Street when they observed a male acting suspiciously as he held a bulky green-and-orange haversack in his right hand. When this man saw the Police ranks, he dropped the haversack and ran through an alley in a northerly direction. The ranks gave chase, but he escaped.
However, when they retrieved the haversack and checked inside, they found an AK-47 assault rifle, an AR-15 rifle, one circular magazine containing 44 live rounds of 7.62×39 ammunition, and two AR-15 magazines, one containing eight (8) live rounds of 5.56×45 ammunition. (G9)
