Cops question prison staff over smuggling plot

Jan 25, 2014 News

Police scoured the Georgetown Prisons for several hours yesterday and questioned staff in a bid to locate the individuals who were part of an alleged plot to smuggle a high-powered weapon and grenades into the Camp Street jail.
Top police officials told Kaieteur News, yesterday, that investigations suggest that at least some employees at the country’s major penitentiary were involved in the plan.
There are reports that a civilian with a car was recruited to hand over the arsenal to another individual, and that the weapons were to have been smuggled in via a prison vehicle.
The plot allegedly unraveled on Wednesday, when police apprehended two youths in Greater Georgetown with an M16 rifle with two full magazines and two grenades in their possession.
Information gleaned during the investigation suggested that the weapons were to have been stashed in Le Repentir Cemetery and later smuggled into the Georgetown Prisons.
Police were up to yesterday still looking for the son of a well known city resident and another civilian.
This newspaper was reliably informed that one of the suspects is a sibling of a notorious high profile inmate who was recently jailed for decades on a murder charge.
Police said in a press release that at about 11:15 hours yesterday, ranks of a police motor cycle Anti-Crime Patrol observed the two men walking along Aubrey Barker Road, South Ruimveldt.
As the police ranks got closer to the men, one of them threw away a bag that he had in his possession.
The bag was retrieved by the police and was found to contain an M16 rifle along with two magazines and 60 rounds of ammunition, a fragmentation grenade and a concussion grenade.
Security officials have been receiving reports that attempts are being made to smuggle firearms into the prison, and also reports that a firearm may already have been stashed there.
About a month ago, prison officials foiled a plot to smuggle ammunition to a high-profile inmate accused of committing acts of terror against the state.
The plot was reportedly unearthed after a prison officer at the Georgetown Prisons found two 12-gauge shotgun cartridges stashed in a pair of Nike sneakers that a civilian had allegedly brought for his cousin.
The cousin is one of the inmates accused of the November 4, 2009 arson attempt at the Supreme Court and of the murder of a civilian. He has been on remand since December 2010.

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