Venezuelan businessman denied bail over ammo at Arau

Jorge Guerreiro

A Venezuelan businessman who was allegedly trying to sell ammunition to the residents of Arau, Region Seven, was yesterday remanded to prison after he failed to give the court a fixed place of abode.

Jorge Guerreiro, 49, pleaded not guilty to an unlawful possession of ammunition charge, which was read by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magis-trate’s Court One.

The charge stated that on October 16 at Arau Village, Cuyuni River, Guerreiro had in his possession sixteen 12- gauge ammunition shells without being the holder of a firearm licence at that time.