RANKS attached to the Joint Services, who were conducting patrols in the Blackwater Creek and Cuyuni River last Wednesday and Thursday arrested five persons (three Venezuelans and two Guyanese) with drugs, guns, ammunition and grenades.

The police reported that, on Wednesday, January 16, 2019, at about 13:30hrs, the lawmen intercepted a boat, conducted a search of its occupants and found in the possession of the 26 year-old Guyanese Captain of Eteringbang Landing, a live 12-gauge cartridge and 271 grams of cannabis.

Meanwhile, in a separate incident, at 15:30hrs, on Thursday, January 17, 2019, ranks also intercepted a boat at Mode Hole, Cuyuni River, and found a live grenade in the possession of each of two of the 17 occupants.

However, later the same day, at about 17:30hrs, another vessel was seized and one of the two occupants who resides at Enterprise, East Coast Demerara, was found in possession of an unlicensed pistol with 11 live matching rounds of ammunition.

The ranks again, that very day (Thursday January 17), this time at 23:30hrs, searched a boat at the Eteringbang Landing and found in the possession of the 27-year-old Venezuelan captain, five live rounds.

Ranks of the Guyana Police Force, on Thursday, January 17, 2019, acting on information, went to a location at Wismar, Linden, and found a 2 ½ acre cannabis cultivation with about 1100 plants measuring six inches to a foot in height, along with a nursery with about 500 seedlings and a makeshift camp.

The plants and camp were photographed and destroyed by fire.
The suspects are all being processed for court.