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monday, october 14, 2019 | guyanatimesgy.com
5 arrested with illegal Parents in Police custody after son’s proved he was sodomised gun, ammo & narcotics autopsy – child also suffered blunt trauma to head
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n autopsy performed on four-year-old Alex Prince, who was found dead last Monday proved that the child died as a result of blunt trauma to the head. It also revealed that he was sodomised. The post-mortem was done by Government Pathologist, Dr Nehaul Singh, at the Georgetown Public Hospital on Friday. As a result of the findings, the mother and stepfa-
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The gun discovered during the operation
ive persons were on Sunday evening taken into Police custody following the discovery of a quantity of illicit drugs, guns, and ammunition during several exercises. The Police stated that between 06:00h and 08:00h on the morning in question, they would have conducted several “cordon and search” operations at Vryheid’s Lust, Montrose, Nabaclis and Plaisance, East Coast Demerara during which the items were found. The Police confirmed that an unlicensed pistol with a live matching round, 300 grams of suspected cocaine and 45 grams of sus-
pected cannabis were discovered. As a result of this, five persons, including two females, were arrested and were assisting with inves-
ther of the child were immediately arrested and were currently being questioned. The lad was pronounced dead after he was found unconscious, naked and with injuries to the head and eyes on Monday last about 12:00h by his stepfather at their home in Silver Hill on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway. It was reported that the child was discovered by his stepfather who claimed that
he left the child at home to go to a nearby shop to buy groceries to cook. The man said that when he returned from the shop, he found the unconscious child. An alarm was then raised, and nurses from the nearby Health Centre were summoned to the home. The child, however, succumbed on his way to the Linden Hospital Complex. An investigation was immediately launched into the matter.
Men nabbed with sub-machine gun released
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tigations. They are exhe seven men who pected to make their court were arrested during appearance this week. an intelligence operaThe intelligence-led operations were headed by a tion on September 24, 2019 during which a sub-maSuperintendent of Police. chine gun and a quantity of ammunition were discovered at a Church Street, South Cummingsburg, Georgetown premises have been released from Police custody. The Police stated that the discovery was made around 14:30h on September 24, 2019 during an intelligence-led operation, where a number of items were discovered. Some of the items found in a storeroom of the premises, where a well-known businessman’s son was Cocaine and marijuana discovered during the operation
staying at the time included a sub-machine gun, with its serial number filed off; three magazines; a silencer; 120 live rounds of .45 ammunition and an AK-47 magazine. However, the Police stated that one of the suspects arrested was a licensed firearm holder. When Guyana Times contacted acting Crime
Chief Michael Kingston, he related that the men were released from custody after legal advice was sought in the matter. According to the Crime Chief, a number of persons reside at the premises where the operation was carried out. He further stated that no charges would be brought against the men.