The police last night said that three persons are in custody after a gun and ammunition which were stolen from a Yarrowkabra man were recovered.
In a statement, the police said that Amos Emannuel, a 22-year-old unemployed resident of Circuitville, Soesdyke/ Linden Highway and Bryan Khan, a 28-year-old unemployed resident of Yarrowkabra, Soesdyke/ Linden Highway were arrested for the offence of ‘Break-and-Enter-and-Larceny’ committed on Mohamed Hack, a pensioner, on 2023-11-22 at Yarrowkabra.
The police say that Emannuel and Khan were placed in Police custody and interviewed by detectives. Emannuel admitted that he and Khan broke into Hack’s house and stole Hack’s firearm and ammunition. Emannuel, the police say, related that after the robbery, Khan took away the firearm from him, along with some of the ammunition.
Khan subsequently took detectives to his home at Yarrowkabra, to the back of his yard and pointed out in a clump of bush a black plastic containing one Astra .38 revolver with three matching rounds in the barrel. There were also two spent shells, as well as forty-nine live .38 rounds of ammunition which were in an ammunition box, property of Hack.
The suspects were further interviewed by detectives, after which Khan took detectives to the home of Alwyn James, a 27-year-old taxi driver of Yarrowkabra, where he pointed out an area where the ammunition was buried.
The area was dug up and thirty-one twelve-gauge cartridges were found in a black plastic bucket. James was also arrested and is in custody assisting with the ongoing investigation.
