Second man held over Regent St guns, cash heist

A second man now in custody following the Thursday morning raid on the National Cooperative Credit Union building on Regent and Oronoque streets, where seven guns along with ammunition and an undisclosed quantity of cash were stolen.

On Thursday evening, the police said that they had one man in custody and according to a source that person was an elderly night watchman, who hails from an East Coast Demerara community.

A police official told Stabroek News yesterday that they now have two persons in custody who