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GEA to test fuel
Drums of fuel seized during the arrest of coast guards could have been smuggled.
Police are awaiting tests results from the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) to ascertain if the fuel recovered during the arrests of three Coast Guard ranks last Sunday was legitimate.
Investigators are working on the theory that the ranks were involved in the smuggling of fuel. Meanwhile, the ranks remain in custody.
Police recovered four drums of fuel in a private boat that was being used by the rank when they were apprehended.
This newspaper observed GEA seals on the covers of the drums that contained the fuel.
Persons associated that the ranks had left their Morawahanna location to conduct business at Parika.
But they had indicated that the business had to do with the sale of chicken in the Northwest District.
Police sources told this newspaper that the fuel recovered from the Coast Guards— a Captain, a Lance Corporal and a Private was more than enough for the return trip from Morawahanna.
The three Coast Guard ranks had made an unauthorised trip from the GDF Coast Guard Base at Morawahanna in Region One, and were in possession of three and one-half drums of fuel, four cellular phones, one GPS device, and $116,000.
The officer was in possession of his service pistol and five rounds of matching ammunition.
According to a statement from the GDF, the ranks aroused the suspicion of the police after they reportedly were asking for directions to Parika while on the Essequibo River.
Residents alerted the police and the ranks were detained.
At the time, the men were traveling in a wooden boat owned by a Better Hope, East Coast Demerara resident who operates a boat service from Charity to the North West District.
Meanwhile, Chief of Staff Commodore Best, told this newspaper that he did not order the arrest of the three ranks.
The army in a press release had stated that the ranks were arrested on directives given by the Chief-of-Staff, Commodore Gary Best.
According to Commodore Best he merely advised that the police be allowed to do their work. The police are the civilian authorities in the country.
Up to last night the ranks remained in custody.
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