Bandits shoot, rob hotel patron

POLICE report that at about 23:45hrs on Saturday, two men pretending to be customers entered a Campbellville hotel, pulled out firearms and held up 31-year-old Rondell Orlando who was at the bar with two other men. They relieved him of US$3,000, Gy$40,000 and two cell phones before escaping in a waiting vehicle.

Orlando was shot to his left side during the incident, and has been admitted to hospital, but investigations are continuing.

And on Sunday, police ranks conducting a search on a man at the Itaballi checkpoint in Mazaruni, unearthed an unlicensed 9mm pistol with seven rounds.

He has been arrested and is in police custody assisting with the investigations.

 

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