The three women who were held at a Regent Street house last week after a cache of high-powered guns, ammunition and other items were found in a plastic barrel, were released on station bail on Sunday but are to report to the police regularly.
Stabroek News understands that the trio who is closely related to one of the men the police have since issued a wanted bulletin for in relation to the same discovery, has continued to deny any knowledge of the illegal items.
Though this newspaper was reliably informed yesterday afternoon that the ballistics tests on the weapons have been completed, no information on the results were forthcoming from the police up to press time last evening.
Efforts to get this information from several top officers, including Acting Police Commissioner Henry Greene and Crime Chief Seelall Persaud were unsuccessful.
Army officials also could not say if the AK-47 that was among the three weapons found during the joint services operations last Wednesday was from the batch that went missing from the Camp Ayanganna armoury in 2006.
Meanwhile, businessman Clayton Hutson, Trinidadian Joseph Aboud and Frankie Ross, for whom police issued wanted bulletins last Friday for questioning into the illegal importation of firearms and ammunition are still at large.
Since the issuing of the bulletins, there has been no sighting of the men or any indication that they were planning to turn themselves in.
Stabroek News understands that the Cummings Street home of Aboud was carefully searched by the police shortly after the bulletins were issued, but it is unclear if similar exercises were conducted at the residences and businesses of Hutson or at the homes of persons associated with Ross.
Police had said in their bulletin that Ross’s last address is unknown.
It is based on information received, including the fact that Ross was the owner of the barrel that prompted the police to issue the bulletins for the trio.
Police, in a release issued on last Thursday said that they conducted a search at the Lot 120 Regent Street, Bourda house around 6.30 pm the day before and discovered an AK-47 rifle with the number filed off, a pistol with a silencer, a Mossberg shotgun, 713 rounds of ammunition of various calibre, 7 magazines for different firearms, a green camouflage water bottle and a green canvas pouch in a barrel.
According to the police, 44-year-old Hutson’s last known address is Lot 50 New Hope, East Back Demerara. He has a mole on the bridge of his nose and is 5 ft, five ins tall.
Aboud is a 31-year-old Trinidadian national whose last known address is Lot 355 Cummings Street, Alberttown. He is 6 ft tall. Ross is five ft five ins and his place of abode is unknown, police said.
Hutson, who is the owner of several businesses, had been before the court on several occasions.
Aboud was held along with several others in a house in Nandy Park in 2006 when members of the joint services conducted a raid in search of the missing army AK-47 rifles.
