At around 13:30 hrs on Wednesday afternoon, police ranks on Mobile patrol at Itaballi Landing, Lower Mazaruni River, observed a grey motor van bearing registration number GTT 2796 proceeding in the opposite direction. The police said in a statement that the van’s owner, Dodstin Clarke, a 43-year-old of Middle Street, McDoom, EBD, was driving the vehicle.
The ranks instructed the driver to stop the vehicle, which he did. The vehicle had two other occupants: Lindon Rudder, a 63-year-old miner of McDoom, EBD, and Albert Griffith, a 63-year-old seaman of Middle Street McDoom, police said.