Police on hunt for “Snakey” after dropping gun, ammo

An Essequibo Coast resident managed to escape from Police custody after he dropped an illegal firearm and several rounds of ammunition in the wee hours of Sunday.

It was reported that on the day in question at about 02:30h, Police were on mobile patrol in the Henrietta, Essequibo Coast area, when the observed the suspect acting in a suspicious manner.
He was later identified as Davenand Dwarka, also known as “Snakey”, who is no stranger to the law. However, at the time, an object was seen projecting from his waist but as the ranks got closer to him, Dwarka escaped into a parking lot.
The ranks went after him and while trying to retrieve the firearm from his waist after falling into a pool of mud, it fell from his hand and into the muddied area.
As the Police were trying to apprehend him, he jumped into a trench and made good his escape.
The firearm was retrieved by the ranks, and when it was examined, it was found to be a 9mm Sig Sauer P226 made in Germany with three matching live rounds of ammunition and a magazine with the serial number filed off.
Efforts are being made to have the suspect arrested since he is known to the Police and is currently before the court on a narcotic charge of 2.277 grams of cannabis.
In fact, in October last year, he was arrested with a quantity of ganja. He was reportedly at Good Hope Stelling Road when he was seen acting in a suspicious manner.
Having noticed the Police, Dwarka jumped off the stall and attempted to hide by lying flat on the ground. At the time of his arrest, he was carrying a navy-blue haversack which when inspected contained three compressed brown paper parcels with ganja which when weighed amounted to 2.7 kilograms.
He was charged and granted bail.