Former US Embassy guard arrested over threatening email

Anand Persaud

Anand Persaud, a 31-year-old man from Sisters Village, West Bank Demerara, and former employee of the United States Embassy in Georgetown, is in police custody after he was arrested for allegedly sending a threatening email to the Embassy’s email address.

A release yesterday from the police said that the email was sent on Thursday, July 25, 2024 and contained threats directed towards United States Government personnel and the Embassy’s Georgetown facility.

Consequently, security officials of the US Embassy made a formal report of the threat at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Headquarters.