Eon Fagundes, 46, of Lot 25 Sandy Babb Street, Kitty, Georgetown, was arrested on 24-07-2024 and charged yesterday with the offences of:
1) Possession of fire-arms without a licence;
2) Possession of ammunition without a licence.
The accused appeared at the Georgetown Magis-trate’s Court #3 before Magistrate Clive Nurse. The charges were read to him, and he pleaded not guilty to the charges. Bail was refused.
The matter was adjourned to 27-08-2024 for disclosure.
Fagundes was arrested during a Police intelligence-led operation which was conducted at about 5.30 am on Wednesday, July 24th, 2024. A total of 26 handguns and high-powered rifles, along with a cache of ammunition, were found.
The Police team, led by a Superintendent, went to the home of Fagundes, a clothes vendor, where a search warrant was executed. As the Police team entered the yard, Fagundes was seen exiting the door of a flat wooden house in the yard with a side bag in his right hand.
He was confronted, and a search was carried out in the bag and one Sig Sauer Rifle and one magazine containing fourteen 9mm rounds of ammunition, one Polimore-80 9mm pistol without serial number and one magazine containing eight 9mm rounds of ammunition, one Spring Field Armory 45 pistol and four magazines, one containing five live .45 rounds of ammunition, and one Bravo gun holster were found.
Police, during the operation, found:
** One AM 15 rifle and two magazines containing sixty-one .223 rounds of ammunition
** Two Ruger-57 9mm pistols and one magazine containing forty rounds of 9mm ammunition
** One FN-45 pistol and two magazines containing thirty-eight rounds of .45 ammunition
** One Smith and Wesson 9mm pistol and one magazine
** One Berretta 9mm pistol and one magazine
** One Spring Field Hellcat 9mm pistol and one magazine
** One Canik 9mm pistol and one magazine
** One Glock 43 pistol and one magazine
** Five Glock 19 pistols, nine Magazines and twenty-one rounds of 9mm ammunition
** Seven Glock 40 pistols and ten magazines with eighteen rounds of .40 ammunition
** Two Glock 17 9mm pistols and two magazines
** One Glock 9mm pistol and one magazine
** One Glock 45 pistol and one magazine.
** Seventy-five 12-guage cartridges
** Four hundred and fifty-six rounds of .223 ammunition
** Four hundred and eighty-four rounds of 9mm ammunition
** Eighty-three rounds of 5.7- 28 ammunition
** Thirteen rounds of 10 MM ammunition
** Three hundred and fifteen rounds of 7.62 -39 ammunition and
15 magazines.
Several other persons were arrested. No charges have been reported against them.
