Georgetown : The police at Charity last Saturday received a report from the captain and two other members of a fishing crew that they had been attacked and robbed by three armed men on Friday November 22, 2013, while fishing in the vicinity of the mouth of the Pomeroon River.
The men reported that three men armed with a handgun and two cutlasses had approached their boat in another vessel, and held them up and took away a lighting plant and their 40 hp outboard motor engine and escaped.
However, investigations by the police revealed that the report was false and that the crew members had hidden the articles with the intention of selling them and had reported the robbery to cover their actions. The outboard engine was recovered yesterday among some bushes in the vicinity of the mouth of the Pomeroon River.
One of the men has been arrested so far and is in police custody assisting with the investigations.
