–for assault, robbery of undercover cop

A SECOND person has been charged and remanded to prison for allegedly assaulting and taking away a policeman’s gun while he was on duty at a nightclub.

He is Joshua Austin, 20, who appeared before Magistrate Leron Daly on Monday to answer to the charges at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
Particulars of the charges allege that on December 15, 2018 at Second Street, Alberttown, Austin, while being in the company of another, robbed Julius Bowlin of a gold chain worth $21,000, and a pistol with six rounds of ammunition valued $125,000 in toto, property of the Guyana Police Force.

He was also charged for unlawfully wounding Bowlin during the commission of the robbery.
Police Prosecutor Sanj Singh objected to bail due to the seriousness of the offence, and the fact that Austin has another assault matter in another court.
According to the prosecutor, two more persons are expected to be charged for the same matter.

Another youngster, 21-year-old Keston Duke, of Bent Street, Werk-en-Rust was last Thursday charged for the same offence and remanded to prison until January 4, 2019.
Similarly, bail was refused Austin, and he, too, was remanded to prison, but until January 21, 2019.