Cops seize guns, arrest male who made threats in social media video

Police on Wednesday arrested a 26-year-old male and seized a number of firearms belonging to a private security firm after he appeared in a video posted on social media and threatened violence.

“Following the circulation of the above video on social media today in which a cache of firearms was on display and also in which threats of violence were made, the Guyana Police Force promptly commenced a thorough investigation.

“So far investigators have arrested a 26-year-old male and seized a number of firearms belonging to a private security firm,” Police Headquarters noted in a statement.

In the video, the young man was sitting in the driver’s seat of a car and brandished several high powered weapons inside the vehicle with threats of violence.