Guyana: A person from Guyana, who’s at present based mostly in the USA of America, was booked by cops after a search on the entrance of a horse race meet in Port Mourant, on Sunday, 31 March, round 2:00 pm, underneath the offence of possessing a firearm with ammunition with none license. The suspects additionally tried to supply a bribe of 5 hundred thousand {dollars} to the on-duty cops for his launch.
Tony Danraj Mootoosammy is the disclosed title of the suspect who was arrested by the officers with a firearm in Port Mourant, a city japanese a part of the Atlantic coast in Corentyne, Berbice area of Guyana.
Mootoosammy is a 46-year-old man, who’s a farmer by occupation and belongs to the locality of Tub Mahaicony in East Coast Demerara in Guyana, whereas in the USA of America, he lives in New Jersey.
The person was within the Guyana for the time and was on the location to attend the Annual Easter Sunday Horse Race Meet the place he was stopped by the on-duty officers to conduct a search. Within the search, the cops discovered a firearm possessed by the suspect, which was a black Sig Sauer Pistol of the P365 mannequin.
The cops additionally recovered {a magazine} loaded with ten counts of stay 9 mm ammunition. The person was carrying the firearm on the correct facet of his pants waist. As the person was carrying the gun at a public gathering, the police officers assumed the firearm to be in authorized possession and requested for the license from the suspect.
In response, the suspect replied again that he forgot the license in his van which he left at his residence. On the demand of identification, the person offered his driver’s license from the USA of America and Guyana to the cops.
The cops requested the person to name his household and ask them to convey the license to the place, which was additionally refused by him as allegedly his complete household was on the Hose Race Meet. After not getting any genuine response, the cops took the suspect to the Whim Police Station.
On the police station, the person was requested by the officers to rearrange his proof of authority to own the firearm, by way of a sound license or its copy with the assistance of his members of the family or any pal. After a stretched query and reply session, the suspect disclosed to the officers that he didn’t have any license to hold the firearm.
After his acceptance of carrying a firearm illegally, the cops filed a case in opposition to him, through which the suspect tried to bribe the officers for 5 hundred thousand {dollars} money. Nevertheless, the officers took him underneath custody within the Port Mourant case of possessing a firearm. The proceedings within the case are ongoing.
