GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Jul 24, CMC – Police said six people are now assisting their investigations after a quantity of high-powered rifles and ammunition had been discovered during an intelligence-led operation early Wednesday morning..
A police statement said that a total of 26 handguns and high-powered rifles, along with a cache of ammunition had been discovered after searching the home and a vehicle of a 47-year-old clothes vendor, who had been seen exiting the door of a flat wooden house in the yard with a side bag in his right hand.
The police said he was confronted, and a search was carried out in the bag and several guns and ammunition had been found.
Police said that the vendor was not the holder of a firearm license to carry the weapons and has since been arrested and cautioned.
Police said that they also searched a vehicle that was parked in the area, which the vendor said belonged to his daughter and his child’s mother and that he was the person using the car at the time.
The police said he gave them the keys to the vehicle, and a search was then carried out in his presence and several firearms, ammunition and magazines were found in a suitcase, one gulf bag and a haversack.
The police said that five other people including the 66-year-old mother of the clothes vendor, his unemployed sisters and another relative are assisting the police with their investigations.
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