A 36-year-old Lethem resident was arrested yesterday morning after he admitted to smuggling a number of items including forty cases of rum into the country through the illegal Guyana/Brazil border crossing at Mango Grove, Lethem.
The continued use of this illegal crossing poses a severe COVID-19 threat to residents of the community.
According to a police report, ranks acting on information received went to the Mango Grove, Lethem illegal crossing around 4.45am, where they saw the suspect allegedly pushing a quantity of items in a wheel barrow.
