Police find AK-47, bullets & various currencies in home of EBD businessman
Businessman Weston Pickering has been taken into custody after police discovered an AK-47 assault rifle, several rounds of live ammunition, and varying sums of currencies at his home at Herstelling, East Bank Demerara (EBD).
Weston Pickering after his arrest
The police have said that on Sunday, at about 18:25h, a team from Providence Station visited the 42-year-old Pickering’s residence with a request to search for arms, ammunition and drugs, and Pickering consented to the search.
During that search, an AK-47 rifle wrapped in a brown towel was found inside a washing machine on the lower flat of this residence; 29 live rounds of matching ammunition were found inside a magazine, and another 30 rounds were discovered in a pair of black and white socks wrapped in the towel; and six live rounds of 9mm ammunition were found in a bedroom on the upper flat of this house.
The AK-47 and matching ammunition
Other searches unearthed a significant sum of varying currencies in a brown suitcase in another room.
The various currencies that were found in the suitcase
These included Cdn$11,312; US$1,583; 10 Chinese Yuan; TT$5,120; Bar$70; Jam$50; £$3,405; €$120 and Gy$480,000.
Questioned in regard to this discovery, Pickering confirmed that he was not the holder of a firearm licence, but remained silent in regard to other questions. Pickering has therefore been arrested, and taken to the Providence Police Station pending further investigation and charges.
