Gun, ammo found in Camp Street prison

Aug 16, 2008 News

– Oliver Hinckson, three other questioned at CID

Police and prison officials appeared to have foiled a jailbreak at the Georgetown Prisons after nabbing an inmate with a loaded .38 revolver that was reportedly thrown over the prison walls. With the weapon were eight live rounds.
The discovery was made at around 16:00 hrs yesterday.
Kaieteur News understands that sedition accused and
former army lieutenant, Oliver Hinckson, and three other prisoners were subsequently taken to the Police headquarters in Eve Leary for interrogation.
A police official said that ten cell phones and several sharpened implements were also found during an intensive search of the premises.
According to reports, the firearm, along with a quantity of marijuana, was thrown over the prison walls at around 16:00 hrs.
Kaieteur News understands that prison officers caught an inmate attempting to throw the weapon into a section of the penitentiary that houses inmates on capital offences.
The discovery triggered an intensive search of the facility, with prison officers and police ranks scouring every cell on the premises.
As a further precaution, barricades were erected around the entire prison while armed police ranks stood at the ready at strategic points.
Police officials had hinted some months ago that they
had received information that some high-profile inmates were planning a jailbreak.
In July, prison officers found seven .22 rounds of ammunition on inmate Edwin Niles, who was incarcerated on a narcotics trafficking charge.
Niles died shortly after being admitted to the Georgetown Hospital with a broken arm and burns on his back and shoulders.
Hinckson, 64, of Meadow Brook Gardens, was charged on March 11 with sedition and advocating the commission of terrorist acts.
The charges stem from alleged statements he made at a City Hall public forum.
The prosecution contends that Hinckson uttered a seditious speech to the public news media for the purpose of bringing hatred or contempt to the President/Government, or to promote public disorder, on February 1.
The former army lieutenant, along with former army rank James Gibson, was also previously charged for possession of arms and ammunition.

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