|
Since the removal of the Berbice Anti Smuggling Squad (BASS), the Guyana Revenue Authority and the police have made a number of interceptions at the various backtrack crossings on the Corentyne River.Leroy HindsOne such interception was made on Sunday, last, when 37-year-old Leroy Hinds of Amelia’s Ward was nabbed with a shotgun in his possession.According to information, at around 16:00 hrs on the day in question, law enforcement officials were conducting checks on a number of persons who had just arrived by boat at a backtrack crossing at the Number 78 Foreshore.Hinds, who was among the passengers,Wholesale Jerseys, was checked, and a disassembled 32 Gauge shotgun was found in a bag he was carrying. He could not produce a receipt for the weapon.Hinds was arrested and taken to the Springlands police station where he was subsequently charged.He appeared in the Springlands Magistrate’s court on Tuesday before Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh and pleaded guilty. He was remanded to jail until the following day, when he was sentenced to two years in jail. |
|