More small time arrests for propaganda purposes while the fat cats walk free.

 

A First Avenue, Bartica, resident was arrested at his home on Sunday with 491 grams of Cannabis, a police report revealed.

It was noted that police received information that the 27-year-old suspect was selling narcotics at his place of abode. Ranks swooped down at the location about 14:30hrs and observed him placing something in a toilet cistern, after he saw the police.

An examination of the cistern revealed the illegal substance, packaged in small-size zip lock bags. He was promptly taken into custody.

More small time busts, but we are not hearing about the big drug lords as they have Granger in their pockets.

Mother ditches coke, children remanded

Apr 25, 2017 News 0 Comments

Odetta Bobb-Semple, ditched a bag containing cocaine and made good her escape, leaving her two sickly children to be arrested and taken into police custody.

Remanded to prison: Timeka Bobb-Semple and her brother Dellon Bobb-Semple

Timeka Bobb-Semple, 21, and her brother, Dellon Bobb-Semple, 23, both of Lot 68 Cross Street, Georgetown were yesterday remanded to prison by City Magistrate Judy Latchman in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts after pleading not guilty to a possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking charge.
It is alleged that on April 21, last, they had 171 grammes of cocaine in their possession for the purpose of trafficking.
The court heard that on the day in question the police conducted a raid at the address mentioned in the charge and conducted a search during which they found the narcotics under a floor board.
The prosecutor told the court that upon seeing the police Odetta Bobb-Semple, the mother of the defendants, made good her escape.
Attorney Adrian Thompson who represented the defendants told the court that his clients’ mother was spotted by police dropping the narcotics. He further said that the charges being instituted against his client came as a surprise since he thought they were being taken to the station to give a statement.
Further, the lawyer disclosed that Timeka suffers multiple episodes of seizure daily while her brother is still recovering from an open heart surgery he underwent in February.
Magistrate Judy Latchman remanded them to prison until May 8.

Finally a Blackman cane cutters, shattering the myth perpetuated by d2 and caribj that only Indians are cane cutters. 

Canecutter who hacked off reputed wife’s wrist turns self in

Apr 25, 2017 News 0 Comments

Warren Dennis, the canecutter who hacked off his reputed wife’s left wrist at Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerraa, has surrendered to the police.

CHOPPED: Constable Alana Hazel

A senior police official confirmed that a brother of the suspect accompanied him to the Sparendaam Police Station around 18.00 hrs at.
Police sources said that the suspect had been hiding out in the Beterverwagting backlands. He had reportedly came out of hiding early yesterday morning, but fled after some residents spotted him.
The suspect, a cane cutter at Enmore Estate, attacked his reputed wife, Police Constable Alana Hazel, 28,
on Sunday evening, shortly after she had visited an in-law’s home.
Constable Hazel, who is stationed at the Police Officers’ Mess, Eve Leary, Georgetown was found in a trench and rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) in a police pick-up.
She also sustained chop wounds to her face and back. A close friend who visited her yesterday said that her condition has improved.
Sources who witnessed the attack said that Hazel had jumped into a trench to escape, but the suspect pursued her into the same trench and began to chop her. He reportedly fled after the woman pretended to be dead.
Kaieteur News understands that Hazel, who resides with another man at School Street, Beterverwagting, left her home to visit her 12-year old son, who resides with her sister-in-law in the same village.
Her attacker lived a few houses away from the sister-in-law. A friend of Constable Hazel said she was at home when she heard someone screaming. The woman said that when she ran out she saw ‘Warren’ holding a cutlass while Constable Hazel lay in a trench.
Constable Hazel and the suspect have three children, but had separated, and Hazel started another relationship.
Relatives of the injured Hazel said they had warned her on numerous occasions to desist from going in the yard to see her son, since ‘Warren’ resides nearby. The relatives disclosed that they even urged the mother of three to move out from the village.

Them pnc bais play stupid under the PPP. Now jackass Granger got them doing their jobs as the PNC rescind previous orders to police to be on go slow during PPP time. 

A prisoner’s bid to escape from custody at the Ruimveldt Police Outpost was on Friday morning thwarted by the quick action of the police.

According to reports reaching the Guyana Times, the suspect in custody had asked permission to use the washroom, which is situated at the back of the station. But while outside, he scaled the fence of the compound and ran away.
However, upon seeing what was happening, passers-by raised an alarm, resulting in police ranks giving chase.
The man was rearrested a short distance away. As he was being taken back to the police outpost, it was observed that he was drenched in blood, leaving onlookers to believe that the police might have used excessive force in recapturing him.
The escapee complained bitterly of being beaten by police ranks; but when contacted, the police refused to disclose any information in respect to the man’s arrest.

Gunman shoots accomplice while fleeing robbery scene

May 07, 2017 News 0 Comments

– Four nabbed, two vehicles impounded

A gunman has confessed to mistakenly shooting one of his accomplices after he and three others were arrested for robbing a shop at Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara (WBD) around 13:25hrs on Friday.
The confessed shooter was one of four men who were apprehended on Friday near the Demerara Harbour Bridge, shortly after carrying out the daring robbery.
Among those apprehended was Leon Williams of Lot 139 Section K Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast Demerara (ECD).
It was Williams who was accidentally shot to the upper right arm by his accomplice, when the getaway vehicle he was driving crashed. Two other suspects managed to escape.
The police said that four males entered the business place operated by a woman and her daughter and pretended to be customers.
Shortly after, two of them whipped out firearms and relieved the victims of their valuables before fleeing in a Toyota Spacio. They discharged several rounds in the air as they were escaping.
The matter was reported to the police and ranks immediately responded and intercepted the getaway vehicle.
By this time, only the driver was in the vehicle. He disclosed that his accomplices had abandoned his car and boarded another vehicle driven by one of the suspects and they were heading to the Harbour Bridge.
It was then roadblocks were immediately set up and the suspects, upon noticing this, diverted to La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara.
Kaieteur News was informed that Williams panicked after seeing the police ranks and crashed into a culvert.
His accomplice, who was sitting in the front passenger’s seat, told the police that he had the gun in his hand and when the vehicle crashed, the impact caused him to mistakenly discharge a round which struck Williams.
He explained that they were all desperate to get over the bridge and abandoned their wounded accomplice. He said that they then walked to the main road where they boarded separate buses.
The police in a release said that two of the men were nabbed at the Harbour Bridge with an unlicensed firearm and five rounds.
The two vehicles which transported the men have been lodged.

Glasgow police patrol arrests five with unlicensed firearm, wig, crowbar

May 07, 2017 News 0 Comments

Five persons are now in police custody after they were arrested by a Police Mobile Patrolyesterday morning, in a car en route to New Amsterdam. The arrest was done at Glasgow Village, East Bank Berbice. The men ages 33, 29, 27, 26 and 22 were intercepted in the motor car and searched.
The ranks from the mobile patrol intercepted the car and conducted a search when an unlicensed pistol with 13 live rounds, a rope, a wig, a crowbar along with other items were discovered.
According to a Police press release, the five occupants of the vehicle are said to be from Glasgow Housing Scheme, Pilot Street, New Amsterdam, Fort Ordinance and Dazzell Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara. Sources reveal that some of the men are known characters in Berbice. The vehicle and the other items seized during the search were lodged at the Central Police Station.

Bike bandits kill vendor, flee with cash and loaves of bread

May 07, 2017 News 0 Comments

Police are hunting for two bandits who escaped with cash and three loaves of bread after killing a

Dead: Andre Alexander

42-year-old bread vendor during a robbery on Friday night in ‘C’ Field Sophia, Georgetown.
Andre Alexander, of Lot 394 ‘C’ Field Sophia, was shot in the stomach and succumbed at around 23:00 hrs on Friday during surgery at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
The father of two had worked as a driver with Banks DIH Limited, and sold bread after working hours.
The attack occurred at around 20.30 hrs at the victim’s bread stand, which is situated about four houses from his home.
Police said that Alexander was at his bread stand when the two men rode up on a motorcycle. The pillion rider requested three loaves of bread and paid with a $5000 note.
Kaieteur News understands that while Alexander was in the process of making change, the ‘customer’ whipped out a gun and demanded cash.
When Alexander put up a fight, the robber discharged two rounds, one of which struck the vendor in the stomach.
The two men relieved their victim of his cash and also escaped with three loaves of bread.
The victim’s wife, Beverley Alexander said that she and her husband have been operating the bread stand at the same location for more than six years and were never confronted by bandits until Friday night.

The stand where Andre Alexander was killed.

She said that she was at the stand when they two bandits approached her husband and shot him when he resisted.
According to Mrs. Alexander, two other customers were at the stand when the robbers attacked.
“After he (pillion rider) collected the bread, my husband was making change to give him when he pulled out a gun and demanded the cash, so my husband tried to push away the gun and the man fired one shot and when that one missed, he fired another shot,” the woman noted.
She further related that when she heard the first shot, she ran for her life. “I run behind the stand and when I see the other suspect coming, I start run.” The bandits did not try to rob the other customers at the stand.
Beverley Alexander said that after the bandits escaped, she ran to her husband and found him lying on a bench.
“He was unconscious and bleeding. A bus took him to the hospital and when they rushed him to theatre, he died,” Beverley said.
Andre Alexander was described as a quiet and hard working individual.
No one has been arrested.

Man wakes up to find bullet lodged in TV stand

May 07, 2017 News 0 Comments

A Charlestown man is now counting his lucky stars after he woke up yesterday morning and discovered a bullet lodged in his television stand a few feet from his bed.

The bullet that was lodge in the tv stand.

James George, 46, of Lot 10 Howes Street, Charlestown, Georgetown stated that he woke up around 8:30am yesterday morning and proceeded to do his normal Saturday morning routine cleaning around his home.
George said that he first decided to wipe his windows and that is when he noticed a long graze on the window, a graze that was not there before he noted.
George said that he did not take the graze for anything serious since there would normally be children playing in the area. He thought one of them may have pelted a brick.
Not paying much attention to the window, he proceeded to different areas in the home.
It was while wiping the television stand he observed a dent and then he saw what appears to be a bullet lodged in the television stand.
George said it was then he decided to sit on his bed and try to sum up the entire situation. That is when he realized that the bullet lodged in his television stand was the object that caused the indentation in his window.
“I thank God that bullet did not hit the television, because is only last December I took that television from Courts.”
The man who has been residing at the address for the past two years stated that when he observed the bullet he immediately began to pray and he thanks the Almighty father for saving his life.
“Imagine my bed is right next to the window and that bullet could have hit me and kill me. God had to be with me.”
George said that it’s a good thing that his children were not at home when it happened because it might have been a different situation.

School boy robbed at knife point in minibus

May 10, 2017 News 0 Comments

It was during the morning rush hour, Aaron Sookwah, was sitting in the back seat of a route #41 minibus, all prepared for classes. His stop to the recently relocated Brickdam Secondary School was just a few corners away on Mandela Avenue.
“The next thing I know, the man sitting next to me pulled out a knife and stuck it to my side. Then he told me to give him my bag,” the 14-year-old told Kaieteur News.
Even though the bus was full, with his teacher sitting in the seat in front of him, Sookwah said he was too frightened to raise an alarm.
“I just take off my bag, and leave it, and somehow, I managed to tell the conductor to stop me off by the (East La Penitence) police station, because that is where my school is now – behind the station,” the teen said.
He explained that the bandit allowed him to exit the bus.
“After I come out and the bus drove off, I see one ah my friends, and I tell him everything that happen.”
All the while, his teacher, who was also in the bus, had been oblivious to what had occurred.
“My teacher does usually stop off at the corner after the station, because she says it closer to school, so she came out of the bus after me,” the young man said.
He added, “By the time I reach to school, I see my teacher and I tell her wha happened.”
The teen was then accompanied to the nearby police station where a report of the incident was made.
The child’s mother, Karen Sookwah, also made a report to the Ministry of Education.
“They said that they will look into it…I wanted them to know what is happening, because I know of many school children being robbed. It is a sad thing,” she related.
The woman is concerned that the Brickdam school has been relocated to a community that “is known to be criminal infested.”
“I really hope that they would remove this school from here,” the woman said.
She maintained, “The school being located next to a police station is no consolation.”
“After the crime is committed, you go there and make a report. That’s it. Nothing else really happens.