MAGISTRATE Marissa Mittelholzer at the Mahaica Magistrate’s Court, on Friday, August 30, 2019, remanded a 37-year-old fisherman to prison for having an illegal shotgun in his possession.

Deocharan Das of New Providence, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara, denied the charge and was remanded to prison.
Particulars of the charge alleged that Das on August 26, 2019, at Wash Clothes, Mahaicony Creek, had a 12 gauge single barrel shot gun in his possession, without being the holder of a firearm license.

According to reports, police, while on mobile patrol in the Wash Clothes, Mahaicony Creek area, saw when Das was on his wooden boat coming ashore.

It is alleged that when Das saw the police he threw the firearm into the water. Nevertheless, the police saw his actions, retrieved it and arrested him.
Magistrate Mittelholzer, remanded Das to prison until September 30, 2019, and transferred his matter to the Cove and John Magistrates’ Court.