At about 1800h today, the police said that Joint Services ranks responded to reports received that a group of men were attacking and robbing persons traversing the roadway at Rockstone, Upper Demerara River, and arrested three men who were armed with cutlasses.
Police say that a ditch had been dug across the road and vehicles were being pounced upon as they slowed down at that point.
A number of other men managed to escape as the Joint Services ranks approached.
The three men are in police custody and charges will be made short, police said.
