Medical clinic boss, four others busted with 1000 AK, other rounds
Hours of painstaking surveillance paid off on Friday when ranks from the Major Crimes Unit of the
Satyendra Khemraj
Criminal Investigations Department busted four persons including a medical practitioner following the discovery of a large cache of ammunition and an illegal 9mm pistol.
Police in a statement said that during Friday last, its ranks conducted a search on a building at Austin Street, Campbellville, Georgetown and unearthed 1,371 rounds of 7.62 x 39; 100 rounds of .223 and 22 rounds of 9mm ammunition along with the firearm.
The 7.62×39 ammunition is used in the deadly AK-47 assault 6 rifle, while the .223 is another rifle-ammunition.
The police confirmed that two men and two women have been arrested and are in custody assisting with the investigations.
A police source who asked not to be named told this newspaper that the bust stemmed from information received by the police that one of the suspects, Satyendra Khemraj, the Director of a Medical Clinic located at Austin Street, Campbellville was dealing in arms and ammunition.
“We heard that he was selling AK-47s along with the ammunition,” the source said.
The police Major Crimes Unit headed by Assistant Superintendent Mitchell Caesar, staked out the location and swooped down after they were able to gather the information they were seeking.
They first raided the clinic where they discovered the large ammo cache.
The medical clinic where the AK-47 ammunition were found.
According to the source the ammunition was contained in a green military-type crate which was filled to capacity.
“Most of the ammunition was the tracer type,” the source explained.
The source said that investigators will be engaging the Guyana Defence Force, with a view to ascertaining if the ammunition has any link to them. After the find the police next went to Khemraj’s Fifth Avenue, Subryanville home where they found the illegal 9mm semi automatic pistol.
“He’s claiming that the ammunition belongs to a known character, who deals with drugs and whose name we won’t disclose at this time for obvious reasons,” the source said.
This latest ammunition bust comes a few days after the same unit successfully busted four persons in three separate operations.
A few days ago, Caesar and his men busted a father and son at Timehri, with an illegal shotgun and matching cartridges.
Last week the unit arrested one Ronald Daniels at Diamond on the East Bank of Demerara and Devon Coates at Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara, both of whom were found in possession of illegal firearms and ammunition.