Police round up known characters at Stabroek Square …TSU members pick up several men for questioning |
Written by Michel Outridge |
Friday, 18 January 2013 22:36 |
POLICE yesterday carried out an impromptu raid around Stabroek Market where they singled out known characters and rounded them up into a police van shortly after 14:00hrs.
In this exercise carried out by members of the Tactical Services Unit (TSU), several men were picked up and taken away by the police for questioning. Men and teenagers who were found loitering and in possession of weapons and other instruments such as knives were also targeted by the party of policemen yesterday. In a separate incident, the police on Thursday conducted an early morning raid in the areas of East and West Ruimveldt and East La Penitence, Georgetown, and arrested six men, during which 10 buildings were cordoned off and searched. In this operation, one flat screen television, one laptop computer, seven DVD players, one play station, and a motorcycle, which are suspected to be stolen or unlawfully obtained, were seized by the police. In addition, a nipper and a pair of military boots were found. Six men have been arrested and are in police custody pending investigations into armed robbery and break and enter and larceny. A similar operation conducted by the police on January 9 saw 11 men arrested for various offences during a ‘cordon and search’ operation in several city wards. Eight buildings in Albouystown and West Ruimveldt, in Georgetown, were searched. The men held were in custody pending investigations into armed robberies and crimes involving narcotics, and two of them have been positively identified as the perpetrators of recent armed robberies, police said.
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