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April 3, 2024 | Guyana Uncut News | Georgetown, Guyana
Guyanese Tony Mootoosammy, who resides in the United States, has been remanded to prison for illegally possessing a gun and ammunition.
On March 31, during a horseracing event at Port Mourant, Corentyne, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne), Mootoosammy, a 46-year-old businessman from Bath, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara (ECD), was taken into custody.
Following a tip police conducted a search and discovered a weapon with a magazine holding ten live rounds of 9mm ammunition.
The individual was reportedly trying to enter the arena where the races were being held. When the police asked the man to show his licence, he said he had left it in his van at home.
The aforementioned rank then requested identification from him, and he showed his driver’s licences from both Guyana and the United States of America.
When Mootoosammy was questioned about whether he could give someone permission to bring his gun permit or even email an electronic copy, he said that his whole family was present at the event.
Police then invited the man to the Whim Police Station, where he eventually acknowledged that he lacked the necessary licences for both the pistol and the ammo.
The individual was informed of the offence, but he allegedly offered to bribe the officers with $500,000, but Mootoosammy was arrested and placed into custody.
He acknowledged guilt to the charges and was remanded to prison when he appeared today in front of Magistrate Tuanna Hardy at the Number 51 Magistrate’s Court.
The matter was adjourned to April 8 for the report, and it will be called up at the Whim Magistrate’s Court.
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