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Jul 10, 2014 News
– were to be melted down and sold as scrap metal
Two men, including a member of the Guyana Defence Force, who were detained by police, are to face charges in connection with the discovery of thousands of spent rifle shells and four magazines in an Albouystown yard.
Kaieteur News understands that the two men, who are brothers, are to be charged for possession of the magazines, following the advice of the Director of Public Prosecution, while investigators continue to probe the origin of the spent shells.
Police raided the James and Victoria Street property on Sunday when they responded to a call that two men were violently attacking each other.
The two men, one of whom permanently occupies the house where the items were found, have since gone into hiding.
However, their two nephews, one a soldier, turned up after the police searched the yard and found the items.
Reliable sources associated with the Albouystown house informed this newspaper that the spent shells were to be melted down and sold as molten copper.
Kaieteur News understands that the shells were taken to the Albouystown yard two years ago by a horse cart operator, who is still to be located.
“He bring them in two crocus bags and left them because the scrap metal man didn’t want tek dem like dat. Dat is big trouble,” the source said.
The source pointed out that he was surprised when the police made a big fuss over the find since the shells were “lying in the yard for everyone to see.”
He said that the four magazines were among the shells but were taken out and stored in the house by one of the men in custody.
“I don’t know why he keep it without reporting it to the police. The army clothes the police find were his too; he’s a soldier and now he get heself tie up,” the source told this newspaper.
The big question is where did the all the spent shells come from?
A senior police official told this newspaper that the shells definitely did not come from the police.
“I can’t imagine where they could have gotten that amount of spent shells from. They couldn’t get it from the TSU; the police don’t do that type of firing at Eve Leary,” the officer said.
He suggested that they might have come from the Timehri ranges which fall under the control of the Guyana Defence Force.
“The Timehri range is a restricted area, even the police have to seek permission from the Army to use it. So I can’t see how one could just pick up all those shells and bring it to Albouystown without someone becoming suspicious,” the officer stated.
However, a source in the GDF explained that while they try to pick up as many spent shells as possible after using the ranges, one can still walk around and find hundreds of them that were not recovered.
The two men in custody are expected to appear in court today.
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