The police say that a forty-one year old businessman of Helena # 1, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara was yesterday afternoon arrested with an unlicensed .32 Pistol, fifty (50) .32 and seventeen (17) 9 MM live ammunition.
According to a press release today, police ranks acting on intelligence swooped down on the suspect’s home about 22:55hrs and conducted a search, during which the illegal weapon and ammunition were found in his bedroom
Shortly after, the suspect’s forty year old wife went to the Mahaica Police Station where she offered a bribe of $525,000 to one of the investigating ranks to forego the charges against her husband.
She has since been arrested and the money lodged.
Both are being processed for court.