Grenades found in cemetery

-arrests follow

Ranks attached to the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) yesterday found two grenades in the Le Repentir cemetery, while acting on a tip off that drugs and weapons were hidden there.

Stabroek News was told last evening that several persons are in police custody as a result of the discovery.

Police said in a press release that “acting on information received, CANU personnel conducted a search in the Le Repentir Cemetery during which two concussion grenades were found.”

The release said that the explosives have since been handed over to the police, who are conducting investigations.

A source told this newspaper that CANU received information that there were weapons and drugs hidden at the city location. Acting on that information, ranks went to the location and held several persons. According to the source, it was those persons who told the CANU ranks that the drugs and weapons were hidden in the cemetery.

When ranks conducted the search operation, the source said, only the grenades were found.

Over the years, grenades have been discovered in the possession of criminals. In January this year one exploded near the Stabroek Market killing a man and wounded several others.

Crime Chief Seelall Persaud had said in an interview that the presence of grenades is not a cause for concerns as the incidents are very few.