Berbice : Police at Springlands received information via telephone that a person who is wanted for questioning in relation to several offences, was in a house at Scottsburg.
A party of policemen responded. The house was searched but no one was found. However, whilst searching through the high bushes in the surrounding area, a constable who was armed with a shotgun, came in contact with the suspect who was hiding in the bushes and during the process of arrest, the suspect was shot in the right thigh.
The suspect, on whose person, a toy gun was found, was rushed to the Skeldon Hospital and was later transferred to the New Amsterdam Hospital and admitted, under police guard.
His condition is regarded as stable.
Investigations are continuing.
