An 18-year-old labourer of Onderneeming /Sand Pit Essequibo Coast was taken into custody after being in possession of a salt bag containing a 12-gauge shotgun.
According to a press statement from the Guyana Police Force, the unidentified young man led police to the area where the shotgun was discovered: “He accompanied the ranks to an area at his home where he pointed out a ‘salt bag”. The salt bag was opened in his presence, and a 12-gauge shotgun was found with the serial number filed off”
The young man told police that the shotgun was given to him by a friend to keep.
He was also found to have an iPhone and a Samsung cellular phone which were discovered to not belong to him and which he told police was also given to him by the same friend.
The investigation into the matter continues