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‘Presidential Guard’ threatens man with toy gun

Feb 19, 2010 News

A man who claimed to be a Presidential Guard is in police custody for allegedly threatening another man with a toy gun.
But the detained individual may not be a Presidential Guard after all.
Kaieteur News understands that officials at the Office of the President have indicated that he is no longer employed with the Presidential Guard.
The man was held at around 21:00 hours on Wednesday, on Sheriff Street , by ranks of a police mobile patrol who observed him brandishing the toy gun menacingly at the other man.
When the ranks reversed their vehicle, the man was seen placing the gun in his waist.
He was approached and ordered to hand it over but he denied having a gun in his possession. But the man who he had threatened insisted that he had concealed the gun in his waist.
He subsequently pulled out the gun and handed it over to one of the police patrol ranks.
He compounded matters for himself by claiming that he was the holder of a firearm licence, which he claimed was in his car. But upon checking, the police realized that the gun was a toy.
Realising that he was in big trouble, the man told the ranks that he was a member of the Presidential Guard and requested that they settle the matter and not “let it go further”.
But the ranks invited him to the police station where he was booked and placed into custody.

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