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Submachine gun, drugs probe… Five TSU ranks interdicted, criminal charges recommended

Jul 20, 2012 News

Five Tactical Services Unit (TSU) ranks are to be interdicted from duty and will face criminal charges for allegedly taking $360,000 to release a civilian who was in possession of a Beretta submachine gun and drugs.
An official said that the recommendations were made yesterday by the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). It was also revealed that the ranks face numerous charges, including being involved in a corrupt transaction.
A cadet officer is among the accused ranks.
Three of the policemen were placed under close arrest on Friday shortly after the allegation against them was made. Two others were taken into custody on Tuesday.
Kaieteur News understands that the civilian had alleged that the ranks took his money, while the ranks claimed that the civilian was found with a scale and some rounds of ammunition. However, the ranks are reportedly insisting that they found the submachine gun in an abandoned house.
Attorney-at-Law James Bond, who is representing the civilian, has denied that his client was found with marijuana and a firearm. The civilian has not been detained.
It is alleged that two Thursdays ago, a gold dealer asked an acquaintance to pick up $360,000 for him at a Kitty location.
After collecting the money, the goldsmith’s acquaintance reportedly went on an illegal transaction.
While doing this, he was allegedly nabbed by five TSU ranks. However, instead of taking the man into custody, the policemen allegedly took the loaded Beretta and the $360,000. They then released the man.
It was also alleged that the cops ‘drove around’ attempting to sell the firearm. After failing to find a buyer, they informed their superiors that they had found the firearm in an empty house in Charlestown.
Meanwhile, the gold dealer’s friend returned to the businessman and alleged that he had been robbed. The truth reportedly came out when the gold dealer made the acquaintance accompany him to the Brickdam Police Station to report the ‘robbery’.
It was then that the acquaintance allegedly admitted to the dealer that he had been forced to hand over the money to the policemen.
The ranks were subsequently detained.

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