Four persons have been arrested and are in police custody following a brazen morning pirate attack on a fishing crew in the Pomeroon River yesterday.
Police sources last evening told Stabroek News that a fishing crew was fishing in the mouth of the Pomeroon River when they saw a strange boat rapidly heading in their direction. Suspecting a pirate attack, the crew, they said, alerted their boss, an Essequibo Coast businessman, who in turn contacted Maritime officials, as the crew sped toward the bank of the river where they abandoned their boat and catch. On their return with the police it was found that the pirates had taken not only their catch but fuel that was in boat. Their losses are believed to be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Subsequently, around 2pm yesterday, police arrested four men in a boat who
