A man was yesterday arrested and is awaiting charges for illegal possession of a gun and ammunition while his accomplice is out on station bail.
According to a Guyana Police Force release, the two men were arrested on separate days after a gun was allegedly pointed at a police officer outside of Burger King at Camp and Regent streets. The police were acting on information received on Sunday at 12:30hrs, when they went to Burger King at Camp and Regent streets in Georgetown, where they saw two men. A police corporal approached the two men, one of whom then drew a suspected firearm from his pants crotch and pointed it at the officer.
The police said that the two men started running after the policeman took evasive action and discharged three rounds in the suspects’ direction. According to the release, one of the men ran into Burger King, while the other man ran in a westerly direction along Regent Street with the police in pursuit. The man scaled a fence at GuyOil Gas Station before being later arrested on Charlotte Street.
Meanwhile the other man who ran into the fast food joint had already left the establishment by the time the police returned. Acting on a tipoff, the police conducted a search of the Burger King kitchen area where a Taurus Judge revolver and five suspected rounds of .410 ammunition were found in a garbage bin.
The suspect who was arrested on Sunday was released on $20,000 station bail while his accomplice surrendered to the police at Brickdam Police Station yesterday. The man showed up with his attorney and was nursing what appears to be a gunshot wound to his left thigh. The police said that the man explained that he suffered the wound on Sunday during the incident.
The release had stated that the items were on Sunday shown to the first suspect, marked, sealed and lodged in his presence at the Police Station. The second suspect remains in custody pending charges of possession of a firearm and ammunition without a licence.
