Vehicle with South Road suspects had false licence plates – Crime Chief

Mark Anthony Joseph

The Albouystown youths who died after an alleged shoot-out on Saturday with police had been dropped off close to the South Road scene in a vehicle which had false number plates, according to Crime Chief Seelall Persaud.

Police had said in a press release that at around 8.30 pm, three men exited a white car bearing registration number PPP 8539, which had stopped on Alexander Street, a few feet away from the K&VC hotel where they were headed to allegedly commit an armed robbery.

Asked yesterday about this vehicle, Persaud told Stabroek News that it