Fisherman, family terrorized, robbed of over $7M in cash, jewelry

A Corentyne fisherman and his family were on Sunday evening attacked and robbed by four armed and masked bandits who relieved them of over $7 million in cash and jewelry. The man, Nakool Manohar, 47, called “Fire” resides at No. 43 Village, Corentyne, with his wife; Sattie Ettwaroo, 37, and their three children aged 17, 14 and 3 months.
Also sharing the home is Ettwaroo’s father-in-law; Seepaul Manohar, 64, and a 14 year-old boy.
At the time of the robbery, Nakool Manohar, was not at home. According to his wife, Sattie, at around 02:15 hrs, the bandits who gained entry into the home by breaking a window started firing several shots. The traumatized woman added that she and her daughters immediately hid in the back room of the house.
“Three of dem come cause one binna watch outside and dem come seh we come fah all de money and jewels.”
She stated that the bandits started hitting her across her hand as she pleaded for her safety and her children. “One of dem say if she can’t give everything, bring one of she daughter dem. Me gon rape she daughter right hay in front she”.
The hapless woman relayed that she handed over all the cash and jewelry they had, to the bandits. The gun wielding bandits carted off over $1.5 million in local currency, US$4,000, SRD $13,000 and $1.6 million in gold jewelry. The bandits also escaped with three cellular phones; two Iphones, one Samsung cellphone and one Laptop computer.
She added that after the bandits left, they returned and demanded to be given hidden valuables. “One of dem seh dis is nah all you gimme hay. You gotta gimme more”.
Sattie Ettwaroo added that one of the bandits referred to his partner by the name “Kishan” as they were about to leave. “De one downstairs lash me father-in-law in he head wid a bottle and de other one seh Kishan leh we go lang now”.
According to Nakool Manohar, he was on several occasions denied a firearm licence. “I running a business hay and every time meh go in, dem always ah find fault”. Police sources revealed that two persons have since been arrested as investigations are in progress.
Meanwhile, the crime situation continues to worsen in the Corentyne, Berbice area. Over the past month, there have been multiple gun related robberies in Rose Hall, Port Mourant and Belvedere.

Full Works Auto-Spares broken into, new stocks carted off

Employees of Full Works Auto-Spares got the shock of their lives when they opened the store on Saturday morning and found the place ransacked.

The window through which the thieves gained entry.

The employee who would usually open the business every morning said, “When I come in (Saturday), I noticed something wrong right away because all the boxes were scattered in the office.”
He said that the thieves gained entry to the building through an open window on the second floor and reached the bottom flat where they ransacked the place.
According to the owner he had received new stocks of LED lights, several radiators and other car parts only the day before. The thieves reportedly carted off an undisclosed number of car lights, radiators and shocks.
The proprietor of Full Works Auto Spares refused to estimate his loss. He said that the police lifted fingerprints from the windows and some radiators that were left behind.
In addition, a glass display case was broken into and some electronic items removed. When this newspaper visited the crime scene, several footprints were visible just beneath the window where the bandits gained entry.
It is assumed that at least two persons were responsible for the break in, the building has surveillance cameras but they couldn’t get any footage of the thieves.
The proprietor has stated that he is willing to give a reward for any information that could lead to the arrest of the person or persons involved in the crime.

Gun, ammo found under heap of grass in Alberttown

Port Mourant businessman chopped, robbed

Another Berbice businessperson has been robbed. This time, the owner of Limacine Service Provider Rawle De Matos was pounced upon while entering his yard at Port Mourant on Monday evening.

Rawle De Matos

Reports are that the businessman was attacked by two men, one of whom was armed with a gun and the other with a cutlass at about 21:00h.
Speaking with Guyana Times, De Matos said that the men were in his yard waiting for him as he entered. He related that the men demanded cash and jewellery and ordered that he take them into the house.
De Matos recalled that the men attempted to duct tape him and he resisted, during which a scuffle ensued. He was hit in the head with a gun and also chopped in the head.
The man however managed to free himself from his attackers and ran out of the yard, calling for help. During the attack, De Matos was relieved of $6000, and a cellular phone.
He was taken to the Port Mourant Hospital and then transferred to the New Amsterdam Hospital, where he remains a patient. No one has been arrested. Police are investigating.

Mystery arsonist spreads fear at Lethem

– torches minibus, throws devices into two houses
Who is setting those fires at Tabatinga, Lethem?
That’s what terrified residents of the community are trying to find out, after a mystery arsonist torched a minibus late last month and threw incendiary devices into the bedrooms of an elderly woman and a Health official early yesterday. Fortunately, in both instances, the victims of yesterday’s attacks managed to put the fires out.
The culprit, who attacks just before dawn, first struck on April 27, at the home of Bernadene Gomes. Mrs. Gomes said that she awoke at around 03.00 hrs that day to the sight of “big flames” in her yard.
“When we got up, smoke was in the house and the bus was on fire.” She said that the vehicle, BPP 1126, was destroyed. The bus was worth some $8M and she had the vehicle for four years. Her property is fenced.
Mrs. Gomes said that she could think of no one who would want to harm her family. She admitted that the strange attack has left her unable to sleep soundly.
“I keep going over this thing. You can’t sleep, we are living in fear right now.”
It is believed that the same individual struck twice yesterday.
One victim, 68-year-old Bibi Ann Austin, lives three houses away from Mrs. Gomes.
Mrs. Austin said that she had gone to her washroom, then returned to bed, only to awake at around 04.30 hrs to find that her mosquito net and some of her louvre panes were on fire.
She managed to extinguish the flames, and later heard her dog chasing someone “up the road.” The pensioner said that she informed ranks at the Lethem Police Station of the attack, but the ranks never came.
Like her neighbour, she has no idea why someone would want to harm her.
Then, about 30 minutes later, the arsonist attacked at the home of Regional Environmental Officer Juanita Jerrick-Williams.
Mrs. Williams said that she was in bed with three of her five children. The health officer said that she was just getting out of bed to pray, when she felt “something wet” on her back.
“By the time I turned around, I saw fire on my bed and mosquito net. I saw a shadow running to an unfinished building next to me, but we were too busy putting out the fire.”
No one was hurt, but the hair of her 12-year-old daughter was singed.
She said that the police came and saw footprints in her yard.
Mrs. Williams said that she has worked in Lethem for some 24 years, and has no problems with anyone.
Police sources at Lethem confirmed that they are investigating the reports.

Armed bandits rob local exporter near Police station

Corentyne gas station guards robbed

PNC boys make "big" drug bust as they catch "Indian drug lord"

Wakenaam farmer remanded for narcotics trafficking

Girl’s screams scare thief

An Anna Regina mother and her two young daughters panicked Saturday morning after they woke up to find an intruder in their home staring at them even as one of the woman’s daughters hollered frantically for “Thief, Thief!”
Neighbors who were alerted by the screams proceeded to surround the house but the masked man jumped through a front window and escaped.
But before the unknown bandit entered the woman’s house at Anna Regina, he had broken into a neighbour’s house. The police were alerted and were making checks for the man.
The bandit carried away money that was secured in a bag in the woman’s house.
Meanwhile, in Henrietta Village, an unoccupied house was broken into. The thief stole a television set. The police were alerted and checks were made but no suspect was held.(Yannason Duncan)

East La Penitence police under fire for perceived inaction

A Lodge resident is alleging that police officers from the East La Penitence Police Station refused to arrest the assailant of a battered man.
The victim, Richard Washington, who was assaulted about his body, is currently in the Georgetown Public Hospital with an injured arm and lacerations to his face and neck.
According to Ingrid Baird, of Princes Street, Lodge, Georgetown, Washington is a close family friend who often visits her son, much to the plight of neighbours in the area.
She told Kaieteur News that she was home when she saw a man called “Miggy” push Washington into
a nearby drain not far from her house. She said as she drew closer she saw some other men in the area rush to get involved in a brawl.
“And if you see how they tackling him and stabbing he up,” the woman said.
She said that when she came upon the scene, the men had already left Washington, covered in blood—unable to make a sound. The woman who expressed concern for the young man said that she believes that they were trying to kill him.
He was subsequently rushed to Georgetown Public Hospital by family members. She recounted that she returned home from the hospital to find all of her windows shattered in her house and broken glass bottles littering the kitchen floor, the living room and bedroom. She also observed broken bottles in her yard.
Baird told this newspaper that some men in her neighbourhood have been relentlessly harassing her and her working son, Jermaine Pollard, since they moved in two years ago. “They keep saying how they gonna murder me and my son; they threatening we telling we got to move out cause we are not Lodge people.”
Baird, 45, said that she had reported instances where these accused attackers barged into her yard and pushed her down. She said as recent as three weeks ago, a man called “Roger” stabbed her son’s girlfriend in her shoulder on her way to the shop to buy groceries for breakfast.
Both of these incidents she had reported at the East La Penitence Police Station but no one has been held responsible for the offences.
The woman, who said that she is a peaceful resident in her community, claims the police officers at the station only took statements but no thorough investigations were carried out.
“And I fed up; I have no peace in my house cause I keep believing someone gonna come in and kill me and my son.”
The woman said that only one person among the many of Washington’s attackers has been picked up by the police since the incident.
Despite these comments, Kaieteur News was reliably informed that police ranks are making strides into investigating the matter.

According to police, this is husband and wife story, not a crime.

Police shoot former cop dead

A former cop turned taxi driver was shot dead by the police after he allegedly pointed a gun at ranks and tried to escape after he was arrested for an alleged robbery committed on a Cummings Lodge resident early yesterday morning.
Ryan Vaux, called “Gaza”, 36, a former member of the Tactical Services Unit of the Guyana Police Force was shot while driving away from some armed police ranks outside the Sparendaam Police Station.

Ryan Vaux called “Gaza”(inset) car was pulled from a trench minutes after he collapsed from the gunshot wound.

Vaux who resided at 80 Norton Street, Lodge, eventually collapsed from the gunshot wound and crashed his Toyota Spacio into a trench about 800 metres east of the police station.
The police in a statement said that about 01:10 hour yesterday, ranks of a mobile police patrol along Broad Street, Montrose, East Coast Demerara, saw a man running behind a motor vehicle bearing registration PSS 6835 and shouting that he had been robbed of a sum of money by persons in the vehicle.
The police said that the ranks subsequently intercepted the motor vehicle with the driver and another man inside. In the passenger’s possession was $21,000.
According to the police the passenger along with the robbery victim who was identified as Deryck Persaud, 46, of Cummings Lodge, were placed into the police vehicle, while a police rank entered Vaux’s vehicle and they were taken to the Sparendaam Police Station.
There Deryck Persaud informed the police that he had been robbed by the two men who were armed with a handgun and a knife.
He told police that he was walking along the road when the car pulled up alongside him and the passenger got out and confronted him with a “Rambo” knife.
Persaud said that the man demanded his money and he initially resisted. He claimed that the driver of the car who apparently got angry by his reluctance to hand over his money, got out and pointed a gun at him, forcing him to hand over $25,000.
Persaud said that shortly after, he saw a police mobile patrol and he informed the ranks that he was just robbed by two men in the car that was speeding away in front of him.
The police gave chase and caught up with the vehicle and took the men to the station.
According to a source, at the station, the police decided to carry out a search of the car that was parked on the roadway.
Two armed ranks stood guard while a detective effected the search in Vaux’s presence.
The police said that as this was being done, Vaux suddenly bent down into the driver’s side of the car and pulled out a gun which he pointed at one of the armed ranks.
This newspaper was told that the ranks warned Vaux and ordered him to drop the weapon but he refused and drove away instead.
The ranks then discharged a round from their rifle at Vaux but he managed to drive out of their sight.
The police later drove in the direction in which Vaux had driven and found the car in the trench that separates Vryheid’s Lust and Better Hope.
It turned out that the weapon Vaux had brandished was a pellet handgun. It was found in the crashed car.
The other suspect is in police custody assisting with the investigations.
Meanwhile, relatives of the dead man who turned up to identify his body are not too convinced by the police version of the incident.
They say that the police explanation leaves a lot of unanswered questions.
“Why would he point a pellet gun at the police who had rifles in their hands?” questioned one female relative.
Vaux’s wife who was also at the Georgetown Public Hospital Mortuary declined to speak to this newspaper.
However she told investigators that her husband left home around 21:00 hours on Sunday to ply his trade which is usually done from outside the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.
She said that she was only informed about his death when a reporter contacted her shortly before midday yesterday.

Man robbed, shot in Kitty

– in broad daylight
Sean Harper, 46, yesterday, was fortunate to escape with his life after three masked gunmen pounced on him in Alexander Street, Kitty.
According to sources, Harper had just exited a popular store at the corner of Alexander

Sean Harper’s car at the scene of the robbery.

and Pike Streets, entered his vehicle and was about to drive off when three masked gunmen surrounded the vehicle, shot the window of the driver’s side and grabbed a bag containing some $1.8M and escaped in a waiting car.
Harper reportedly sustained gunshot wounds to his right leg and lower abdomen. The injured man was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Staff at the hospital said that around 16:00 hrs Harper was in the theatre undergoing surgery to remove the bullets from his leg and abdomen. Investigations are ongoing.

These young men don't have to worry, Granger will let them loose in a year via amnesty.

Police capture bandits, recover gun after Rose Hall money-changers robbed

In a brazen daylight robbery, two armed and masked men robbed two popular money-changers in Rose Hall, Corentyne yesterday morning.
According to reports, the perpetrators were nabbed by law enforcement officers, moments after committing the daring act.
Reports stated that around 08:15 hrs, the armed men approached the money-changers and held them at gunpoint while demanding that they hand over their cash.
The men, Parsaram Sukraj and Anil Kumar Sukraj, after complying with the demands were placed to lie on the road while the bandits escaped on foot.
However, swift action by the police led to the capture of the two suspects. One of them, 21-year-old Curt Batson of Market Street, Rose Hall was wanted in connection with a spate of robberies that took place in the said area over the past few weeks.
The other suspect is 19-year-old Kelvin Bates. The police also managed to retrieve a .32 pistol and 5 rounds from the perpetrators.
Investigations are ongoing.

Mother’s day tragedy… Man splits brother-in-law’s head with cutlass

A Mother’s Day celebration ended in the wee hours yesterday with the vicious hacking to death of a 46-year-old painter.
Dead is Narine Seepaul called “Ham” of Lot 308 Bloomfield, Corentyne. The alleged assailant, his brother-in-law Bishram Ramsamooj, is a cane cutter who resides at the same address.
Information revealed that the two men were among a group of persons including other relatives who were imbibing alcohol beverages in celebration of Mother’s Day.
Reports revealed that Seepaul, who resides in the lower flat of the building, during the course of the evening, had left the other men imbibing and went to bed. Sometime after there were some heated arguments which forced Seepaul to intervene.
Around 02:30 hrs the arguments got more intense, and this led to a scuffle. Ramsamooj reportedly left and returned with his cutlass. It was during the ensuing melee that he allegedly chopped Seepaul twice to the head, severely lacerating it in the process.
The injured man, who was bleeding profusely, was picked up and rushed to the Port Mourant Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. The accused had also visited the hospital to treat some wounds which he allegedly received. He was subsequently arrested and taken into custody.
Charges are likely shortly.

BANDIT KILLED BY ACCOMPLICE

A bandit identified as a former rank of the Tactical Services Unit, Eric Angel was on Monday night killed by his accomplice during an attempted robbery.

Around 23:00 hours the armed bandits attempted to rob a Brazilian shop owner at Eterinbang, Upper Cuyuni-Mazaruni.
According to Commander of ‘F’ Division Ravindradadt Budhram, the two suspects attacked the shop owner and the man put up a fight.
During the scuffle, one of the bandits accidentally stabbed his accomplice in the abdomen before escaping.
A source from the area told this publication that Angel, a father of two, hailed from Number 10 Village, West Coast Berbice. He had been laid off from his job as a private security guard just over two weeks ago.
It is reported that he got into an argument with another man. This resulted in him being asked to return his service weapon and leave the camp.
Instead of returning home he stuck around the “landing” and reportedly got involved with bad company during which they conspired to perpetrate a robbery.
Police ranks who were dispatched to the area on Tuesday have since retrieved the body and are making arrangements to have it flown back to the city. A search is on for the second accomplice to the robbery.

Lured, beaten and forced to have sex with foster parent

…woman tells her story of abuse

By Jeanna Pearson
A young woman was lured, beaten and forced to have sex with her former foster parent while his wife looked on. Someone allegedly videoed the entire episode of abuse.
This woman is ashamed to be photographed because, she says, she feels less of a person after the video of the act was posted on the internet.
“He called me and told me to come to the guest house. When I reached there and opened the door him, his wife and another person was sitting on the bed waiting for me,” the 20-year-old said.
“Then his wife grab me and ripped my clothes and tell me that I wanted her husband so she will give me a licking. Then she tell me to perform oral sex on him while they watch.”
The young woman, who was 19 years old at the time of the abuse, said she quickly obeyed because it was three of them against her and she was afraid that they would kill her.
She said that she went to live with the couple after her parents died and her family “split up” when she was 14 years old.
She would clean the house and complete her chores on time, she said. But afterward when she would retire to her room, she recalled, the man would come and try to touch her. Complaining did her no justice, she stated, remembering that every time she told her foster mom, the woman would chide her for lying.
“She never believed me. She believed everything he told her,” she said.
She said that right after the recent assault she called a friend and they went to the Brickdam Police Station, where a statement was taken and a medical certificate was provided. Yet, eight months later, the police have failed to bring her justice. She is continuously being harassed with death threats.
She said the police had informed her that the file would be taken to the Director of Public Prosecution for advice on the matter. She said that she was being bombarded by the couple that if she pushed the issue there will be fatal consequences.
She said that the police might not have done anything if the video was not uploaded on the internet. ‘A’ Divisional Commander, Assistant Commissioner Clifton Hicken, stated that the police were aware of the matter and are investigating.
However, now she is forced to not only battle the trauma of the assault but also that the video has gone viral.
She has been receiving counseling since the traumatic incident. She has contemplated suicide and she had suffered bouts of depression after the video went viral. “When I saw the video I felt really bad. I wanted to kill myself but I didn’t do it because I was receiving counseling. They wanted to ruin me. I didn’t have any relationship with that man,” she said, nervously rubbing her hands against the side of the chair.
She said the man had started “touching” and “rubbing her foot” when she was 16 years old. “The police are saying they don’t have enough evidence and it is disappointing. I felt disappointed with the police because they did nothing to help me get justice.”
Psychologist Dr. Dawn Stewart, who has been counseling the young lady, stated that she suffered significant emotional trauma after the assault and it escalated further when the video was posted on the internet.
“This mother who has a one-year-old child wanted to kill herself and her child. She thought no one was listening to her, no one trusted her, no one believed her and she still has trouble sleeping at nights. She wakes up in the middle of the night, remembering the gruesome assault.
“She said the video became her only evidence yet nothing moving on the law enforcement side. She said the persons were brought in for questioning by the police but was later released on bail.
“Why aren’t these persons prosecuted for their action? She hasn’t been given justice. Women need protection from the State!” Stewart said.
“The police need to investigate and bring charges against these people. The justice system is too slow…I believe that they don’t care and they take women for granted and this is a perfect example. When her first complaint was lodged it was completely ignored,” she indicated.
Stewart added that even if a woman “puts herself in a place where she can be raped or sexually assaulted, it is still unlawful for the perpetrator to commit the act.
“Because someone was raped or sexually assaulted that doesn’t mean that they dressed a way to attract that sort of attention or they acted a way that they should be raped. Rape is rape regardless of whatever the situation they find themselves in. Women’s lives matter. We need to be assertive and aggressive about taking care of our women,” she said.
She stated that Public Security Ministry should start adopting a “swift justice” method in handling cases of violence against women.
“This young lady needs to start her life over but she cannot do that if these people are not brought before the legal system.”
According to the United States Department of State 2015 report on this country’s human rights, local NGOs in Guyana observed that in most cases domestic violence reports were not taken confidentially but rather were discussed in the open at police stations. They were not treated as a matter of urgency.
For last year, law enforcement received 233 reports of rape and only 36 persons were charged. There was a large court backlog. A Judge has discretion to issue a sentence of any length in a rape conviction, depending upon the circumstances and severity of the act committed.
The police received 2,170 reports of domestic violence cases, and 1,131 persons were charged, resulting in a lack of confidence in the judicial system.
The report indicated that there are reports of police accepting bribes from perpetrators and other reports of Magistrates applying inadequate sentences after conviction.
Child Counselor Abigail Loncke told Kaieteur News, that she was left sickened by the content of the video. “I cannot imagine the emotional and psychological trauma that young lady must be going through,” she said, highlighting the woman not only has to deal with the trauma of the assault but also that the video was viral.
“It is painful enough to be abused but then to have the whole country know about that abuse…that you were beaten and then forced to perform sex on someone while others watched on that’s not only sadistic, but a life scar. These people were once entrusted to protect her – that too is traumatic. The mother figure forcing a girl to have sex with the father figure— that is unacceptable,” she said.
The United Nations Organization had reported that as many as seven in ten women in various parts of the world report having experienced physical and/or sexual violence at some point of their lives, most times at the hands of persons close to them.
The Heads of the organization have since called on Governments to honour their obligation to end violence against women and girls as outlined in the Convention of the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women.
Rape victims and victims of sexual assault face bouts of low self-esteem, high risk behavior, while some of them exhibit suicidal behaviour.

Retired professor bound, strangled in home

– killers came in car, seen leaving with suitcases
Police were last night trying to track down a gang of youths, including two females, who they believe bound and strangled a retired college professor in his Prashad Nagar home.

Undertakers removing the remains of Pairadeau Mars from St. Joseph Mercy Hospital last evening.

The body of 75-year-old Pairadeau Mars, called ‘Perry’, was found at around 19.00 hrs yesterday in his study, after his wife arrived at the couple’s Lot 395 Bissessar Street, Prashad Nagar home.
Kaieteur News understands that his hands were bound with duct-tape, and duct-tape was also wrapped around his mouth and neck. Police reportedly found a hammer and cutlass nearby.
The victim’s home was ransacked, and there was evidence that the killers had feasted in the home, since bottles and wrappers were strewn on the floor. There was also evidence that the killers lit the stove.
From information police have received, the killers are individuals who were known to Mr. Mars, a remigrant and Professor, who had lectured in ethnic studies at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
One key player in the callous killing is believed to be a young woman, who had lived a few houses away from the victim. Sources said that she was still regularly seen in the area, and would reportedly visit Mr. Mars’ home and beg for money.
Residents reportedly saw the suspects arrive in a car, and later saw them leaving the home with suitcases.
According to reports, the victim’s wife, Joan Mars, had travelled to Linden yesterday, and last communicated with her husband at around 14:00 hrs. She reportedly called at around 16:00 hrs and got no response.
She reportedly arrived at around 19.00 hrs and immediately realised that something was amiss, since the front door was ajar. Upon entering, she saw her husband’s bound body on the study floor.
Because the body was still warm, the woman reportedly believed that Mr. Mars was still alive, and, with assistance from neighbours, rushed him to the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The body was later taken to the Lyken Funeral Home.

“Casual” argument between brothers-in-law ends in death

Residents of Haslington were left in shock last evening after a “causal” argument between two brothers-in-law ended in deadly fashion.
Fifty-two year-old Terrance Adams was killed around 20:00hrs outside a shop he operated. Adams’ alleged assailant, Les Hamilton, was said to have been under the influence of alcohol when the incident occurred.
The dead man’s brother, Leyland Nelson, told Kaieteur News that Adams and Hamilton got into an argument just around 14:00hrs yesterday. He said that the dispute had simmered, but manifested itself again last night.
According to Nelson, when Hamilton began quarreling again, Adams brushed him off “because he knew he (Hamilton) was drunk.” Nelson said that his brother told Hamilton that he would deal with the issue “another time, when he (Hamilton) sober up” and so the argument died down again.
Nelson indicated that Hamilton then left the shop, “and I left a little after to go and buy tennis roll and cheese for us to eat”. He said that he was riding his bicycle returning to the shop when he saw a large crowd. Nelson said that he inquired and was told “Les jus’ jook up yuh brother.”
Nelson said that he rode further along the street and saw his brother lying on the road in a pool of blood.
Hamilton, who made no attempt to leave the murder scene, was apprehended on the spot, while the victim was rushed to Georgetown Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

Pensioner robbed after withdrawing money from city bank

Lacytown man breaks into Stabroek Market stall

Businessman slapped with fraudulent conversion, forgery charges

Looks like the professor was Dr Sex with underage kids. This led to his death.

Professor, 75, was slain after inviting girl, 17, into home

-told her wife would be out
Retired professor, Pairadeau Mars, was bound, beaten and strangled last Thursday by a gang of youths shortly after telling a 17-year-old girl to come over to his Prashad Nagar house, since his wife would not be there.

Murdered: Pairadeau Mars

Police are in possession of evidence that showed that the 75-year-old had texted the teen to ask her to come over while his spouse was out.
In custody last night are two girls, aged 17and 15, and three young men aged between 15 and 18. Police also detained a sixth individual who was allegedly found with an item that the killers had stolen from Mars’s Lot 395 Bissessar Street home.
Police recovered a laptop computer, a mobile phone, an Xbox play station, and $20,000 in local currency after arresting the youths, who all reside in Sophia.
The teens have reportedly all admitted to robbing Mars, but also claimed that they had not planned to kill him. They are all likely to be charged with murder by Monday.
The 17-year-old girl was known to Professor Mars, since she had previously lived a few doors away from the victim. She is also said to have been a frequent visitor to the home where the remigrant and his wife lived.
He is said to have often given her small sums of money.
The teen has reportedly told police that after receiving a text message from Mars, she contacted her 16-year-old boyfriend and told him that the elderly man would be alone at home, and they could rob him. The boyfriend reportedly then contacted some of his friends, who became involved in the plot.
Shortly after 14.00 hrs on Thursday, the 17-year-old and a 15-year-old girl went to Mr. Mars’s residence and were invited in.
While the girls were in his study, the elder girl, who had left the front door open, reportedly texted her 17-year-old boyfriend and his associates and told them to enter the house.
The other youths reportedly then entered the study and bound Mr. Mars with duct tape. According to a statement given by the 17-year-old, the retired professor told the teens to take whatever they wanted, but to spare his life.
Instead, some of the youths then gagged the elderly man, then beat and strangled him.
They then gathered up a laptop, play-station, cell phone and $25,000 and other items. After putting the items in suitcases they stopped a passing taxi, which took them to ‘C’ Field, Sophia.
Mr. Mars’s wife, Joan Mars, who was in Linden, spoke to her husband by phone at around 14.00 hrs. She failed to contact him after that.
At around 19.00 hrs, the woman arrived home and found the front door open. She then entered the study and found her husband slumped in a chair, with his hands and feet duct-taped together. Duct tape was also wrapped around his mouth.
Police confirmed that they also found packs of condoms at the scene, as well as sexual stimulants.
The retired professor was taken to the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum said that members of the public provided police with crucial information which resulted in the arrest of the suspects.
Some of the slain man’s neighbours had reportedly told detectives that they had seen the youths arrive at Mr. Mars’s residence and eventually leave with suitcases.
Yesterday, relatives of the detained 15-year-old girl recalled that she had left the family’s Sophia home around 14.00 hrs on Thursday to meet her 17-year-old friend, who was staying at her boyfriend’s home in Sophia.
She eventually returned home, but they were unaware that anything was amiss until detectives turned up at their residence Thursday night to take her into custody.
The teen reportedly does not attend school and lives with her grandmother.
And the mother of the detained 17-year-old girl was still in shock when this newspaper visited her yesterday. The woman said that the teen moved from her home a few months ago.
“We had an argument and she moved out and when I saw her back on Mother’s Day she said she living downstairs by her boyfriend and then I told her something and she get vex and she leave again,” the woman said.
She added that she had no idea that her daughter was having a relationship with the retired professor until the teen gave police a statement following her arrest.
“She (17-year-old suspect) said that the man called her and tell her that his wife in the country but she was not at home. He told her what time to go and when she went there she took a (female) friend (the 15-year-old) with her,” the woman said.
The woman added that when the girls got to the man’s home, he asked them to go into the bedroom and take off their clothes. “He was giving them money. He told them he wants to have sex with the two girls, but they refused.”
According to the woman, her daughter told the police that when they refused, the man started to harass them and that’s when the 15-year-old girl texted a friend and a few minutes later, three males barged into the professor’s home.
“She said that they tied him up and they started to pack stuff from his home and then her boyfriend left with one of the boys to get a taxi and she and her friend were waiting at the man’s door. She said while waiting, she heard a strange noise and when she turned back she see this boy put a plastic bag over the man’s face and suffocate him.”
She said that her daughter told the police that they never planned to kill the man but only to rob him.
The woman said that peer pressure got the best of her daughter.
And the mother of the detained 16-year-old boy said that her son became wayward after he started a relationship with the 17-year-old girl who allegedly planned the robbery.
The woman said that she only agreed for the girl to move into a section of her downstairs so that her son would be in her sight.
She said that on Thursday, she went to work and when she got home her son and his older girlfriend were there and everything seemed normal until the police visited their home around midnight.
She later learnt that someone was killed and that her son played a part in it.
“He told the police that his girlfriend told him that the man give her something to drink and then he had sex with her when she became unconscious.”
The woman added that her son said he got angry and decided to go and teach the man a lesson.
“He said that he collected two friends and they went to the house to rob. He said that they tied the man up and he and his friend went to get a taxi and when they went back to the house, they see that the man was dead so all of them got into the car and left the house,” the woman said.
They then went to a house in Sophia with the stolen items.

Berbice man shot during attempted execution

police in Berbice are investigating the shooting of a salesman on Sunday evening at his Portuguese Quarters, Port Mourant, Corentyne, home.

The injured man has been identified as Safraz Bacchus, 31.

Reports are that at about 20:00h at least two men attempted to open a trap door leading to Bacchus’ home but were unsuccessful. After not being able to gain access, a shot was fired in his direction.

At the time, Bacchus was preparing his children’s clothes for school. Reports are that the man initially thought it was the pressing iron that had exploded but soon after noticed a hand holding a firearm through a space in

The house where the shooting took place

the trap door.

Two other shots were fired, one of which struck Bacchus on his leg.

This newspaper was told that Bacchus pushed his children to safety and shouted for help and the men made their escape by jumping a backyard fence.

Bacchus is currently a patient at the New Amsterdam Hospital.

An eyewitness told this newspaper that the incident was an attack on the man’s life and not an attempted robbery.

It was explained that the man is a witness in a murder case gaining attention of the courts.

According to the informer Bacchus was threatened that he will not live to testify and as a result he stayed indoors all day Saturday but was shot on Sunday.

Despite the threats made to Bacchus he did not report it to the Police.

Divisional Commander Assistant Commissioner Ian Amsterdam said the police are investigating the shooting and confirmed that Bacchus is a witness for the state in a court matter.

However, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum when contacted told Guyana Times that Police are trying to ascertain the motive for the shooting but they are not ruling out a possible attempted robbery.

He noted that from what he was informed, the man was in his home when he heard some noise emanating from a section of the house. As he looked in the direction, he saw someone attempting to remove a sheet of plywood that was used to block the doorway.

Upon seeing this, he shouted for “thief” but in retaliation, the perpetrator discharged a round hitting him to his leg.

In another thread I already pointed out that the PPP have been reading the statistics of just about everything upside down. The PPP assured the public and their supporters that crime was out of control. But the figures show there is a massive drop. This can mean only one thing, and one thing alone.. There was no crime tracking under the PPP, so everything looked far more peaceful on paper. And that paper was the Chronicle, aided by GINA. Now under new management, the real figures are finally coming to light.

CG bandits caught after robbing woman they followed from bank

Citizens, fed up with increasing acts of banditry, unleashed their anger on two motorcycle bandits who had just relieved an Atlantic Ville resident of her bag with an undisclosed amount of cash.

This composite photo shows the two alleged bandits and seized motorcycle. (Photo compliments of HGPTV)

Thanks to the quick response from police ranks from the Sparendaam Station, the men are lucky to be alive to face charges for their actions.
The men had earlier followed Marilyn Brumigin all the way from a city bank to her Atlantic Ville, East Coast Demerara home and pounced on her.
Police said that at about 14:00 hours yesterday, Brumigin was about to enter her home after transacting business at a bank in Georgetown, when she was attacked and held at gunpoint by two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun, and who had ridden up on a motorcycle.
The woman raised an alarm, but the men took away a bag with a sum of cash.
Divisional Commander Marlon Chapman told Kaieteur News as the men were about to escape, neighbouring residents who had responded to the alarm, including two off-duty policemen, confronted the perpetrators and snatched away the stolen bag with the money.
The two bandits still tried to ride away but were stopped in their tracks when a motorist drove into them, sending them crashing to the ground.
Although, one of the men was armed with a .32 pistol with nine rounds, he had no chance to use it, as they were both swarmed by residents and the two off-duty cops, who gave them an initial thrashing before handing them over to uniformed police ranks who subsequently arrived on the scene.
The bag of cash and the weapon were handed over to the police, and the bandits’ motorcycle was seized.
Commander Chapman said that background checks are being made on the men to see if they have criminal records. Ballistics tests are also being carried out on the weapon that was seized.
Almost two weeks ago a trio who allegedly followed a customer from a city bank was also nabbed. The men have already appeared before a magistrate and were remanded to prison.

Dem get catch under the AFC government. The PPP commander in Chief used to give orders to have them free passage after a robbery.

Mr.T posted:

Dem get catch under the AFC government. The PPP commander in Chief used to give orders to have them free passage after a robbery.

You mean Granger used to give the PNC police orders to give them free passage? We all know that the PPP was in Government but the PNC controlled the police force. 

Not sure why Kaiteur, Chronicle or Guyana Times did not post this article. So I borrowed from Django's post.

NY-based Guyanese shot in chest on West Demerara

http://www.stabroeknews.com/20...chest-west-demerara/

Drug mule jailed, fined $16.3M

Convicted drug mule Sarfraz Jalaladeen

less than a day after Sarfraz Jalaladeen, 30, of Riverview, Ruimveldt, Georgetown, was busted at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport with almost 12 pounds of cocaine in milk powder packets, he was sentenced to serve four years in prison and fined $16.3 million.

Jalaladeen made his court appearance on Friday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts before Chief Magistrate,Ann Mc Lennon, where he pleaded guilty to the charge when it was read to him.

Reports are that Jalaladeen, who is a welder, and was travelling for the first time to the United States via a Caribbean Airlines flight, was intercepted by members of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) on Thursday evening when they became suspicious after noticing several packets of what appeared to be powdered milk in the man’s suitcases.

A closer examination revealed that the milk packets were resealed and a further check was undertaken. It was then that the ranks realised that the contents of the packets were cocaine. He was arrested and taken to CANU headquarters where the illegal substance was weighed and proved to be just over 6kg.

Jalaladeen provided a statement to CANU agents and was charged. He also provided additional information to the ranks as they continue their investigations.

He reportedly told CANU ranks that he was promised US$7000 to traffic the illegal substance to New York but did not say if he is was paid an advance. Head of CANU, James Singh when contacted told Guyana Times that the drug enforcement unit will continue to hunt cocaine mules as the Anti-Narcotics Unit continued to crack down on the trafficking of narcotics.

Singh noted that they have beefed up their operations at the two main ports of entry and it has been yielding results.

Buck Hall businessman fined, jailed for

Take care in Granger's Guyana, you just might end up swimming with the fishes in a black plastic bag.

Missing Spring Garden farmer found floating in Supenaam

A post mortem examination is expected to be performed sometime on Tuesday on the remains of Harry Dyal Basdeo’s decomposed body which was retrieved some time on Monday with suspected marks, in the Supenaam Creek area.
Dyal went missing last Friday and ever since his relatives have mobilised an intense search for the missing man. An examination to assist in concluding Dyal’s death was prompted after his family revealed that the remains of the deceased bore visible marks which are suggesting he may have taken a fatal blow.
The unmarried 45-year- old is a resident of Spring Gardens but according to information, Dyal farmed at Supenaam Creek several miles away from his home. On Friday, however, his family became increasingly alarmed after Dyal failed to return to his Spring Garden, Essequibo Coast home.
A search was launched for the farmer and it eventually led to the discovery of his decomposed body. Dyal was said to be unmarried without children. The bachelor did farming for a living and would sometimes buy and sell to residents on the Essequibo Coast. Dyal’s boat and engine were also recovered.
Just over a month ago, relatives of a missing Pomeroon River man were able to recover his mutilated body miles away from the Pomeroon River only after a neighbour told the police that the man was not missing but instead he was murdered.
The police acting on that information were able to recover the mutilated body in a black plastic bag in a clump of bushes.
Arrests were similarly made and the accused are currently on $2M dollars bail. (Yannason Duncan)

Lone bandit relieves two guards of guns, cash

…escapes with bag of cash and guns

Police are questioning a security guard attached to the RK Security Service to ascertain the

The abandoned security service car outside the bank.

real circumstances surrounding the shooting of his colleague, who was also relieved of a bag containing cash and two firearms outside the Demerara Bank’s branch at Le Ressouvenir, East Coast Demerara, on Monday night.
Police say that security guard Damion Pearce, 24, was shot in his left foot by a bandit who relieved him of the items just as he was about to make a night deposit at the bank. He is presently being treated at a city hospital.
According to a police press release, at about 20:00 hours on Monday, Pearce and 22-year-old Cleveland Pyle, who are attached to the private security service, were making a night deposit at a Bank at Le Ressouvenir, when they were attacked by a man armed with a firearm.
The perpetrator shot Pearce to his left foot and took away the night deposit bag which contained an undisclosed sum of cash that had been collected from business places, and two .32 revolvers with 10 rounds, and escaped in a motor car driven by an accomplice.
Although, the guards were armed with another weapon, no one returned fire at the fleeing bandit, arousing the suspicions of investigators.
The injured Pearce was assisted by his partner Pyle and taken to the hospital, abandoning the company car outside the bank.
A senior police source said that while investigators are questioning Pyle, they are waiting until doctors give the go ahead for them to question the wounded Pearce as they investigate the matter.

Pensioner dies four days after beaten by son

Seventy-one year-old Rickford Bourne died at the Georgetown Public Hospital on Monday evening, four days after being badly beaten by his 36-year-old son Kwame Bourne.

The now dead Rickford Bourne at the hospital last weekend.

According to reports, Kwame Bourne would regularly threaten to kill his father when he did not receive money to support his smoking habit. The incident is reported to have happened sometime during last Thursday, May 19, in Turkeyen. It is said that an argument broke out between the father and son. During the quarrel, the son reportedly picked up an iron bar that was used to reinforce a window and struck his father repeatedly about the body.
The now dead man’s daughter, Aisha Bourne who lives some nine houses away, told this newspaper that she received a call from neighbours urging her to check on her father as quickly as possible as they had heard the man screaming. She said that she rushed over but by the time she arrived, her brother was already gone and she found her father lying on the floor trying to bandage his head and covered in blood.
She noted that her father had sustained a deep gash on his right forearm; his left eye was completely swollen shut and had at least three deep cuts in his head.
The woman said that she subsequently took him to the hospital where he was admitted. She noted that her brother, a known drug addict, was in the habit of threatening the elder Bourne and would repeatedly point out the iron bar in his threats. She even indicated that on one occasion as she attempted to intervene in an argument, the suspect had “chucked” her and threatened her as well.
Rickford Bourne according to reports was on life support at the hospital and eventually succumbed to his injuries at approximately 20:00 hrs on Monday. His daughter told Kaieteur News that she was going to visit her father when she received the dreadful news.
Police have indicated that a post mortem will be done today. They have since arrested Kwame Bourne and have identified the iron bar as the weapon used in the attack. The suspect is due to appear in court on Friday to face a charge of murder.

Note that with the police hands untied now that the PNC no longer cry police brutality, they are able to get results. You will also note that there is no public or political outcry of police brutality as we are expected to believe that these men cooperated without a fly touching their hair.

RK Security Guards crack, lead cops to buried cash and gun

Two security guards attached to the RK’s Security Service cracked under intense interrogation and led police to recover a stash of cash and a firearm they had reportedly stolen during a staged robbery on Monday night.

The recovered cash and one of the firearms.

The two guards Damion Pearce, 24, and 22-year-old Cleveland Pyle confessed to staging the robbery. They gave investigators information that led to the recovery of the stolen items from a yard at ‘A’ Field Sophia, yesterday.
The cash which amounted to close to three million dollars, along with the firearm, was found in a bucket that was buried in the yard where Damion Pearce lives with his reputed wife, Eulesie Stephens.
It was another major breakthrough for investigators from the Major Crimes Unit of the Criminal Investigations Department, working in collaboration with detectives from the Police East Coast Division.
Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum last night confirmed the success and once again heaped praise on his ranks, who he said worked diligently to crack the case.
He said that both guards and Pearce’s reputed wife are in custody and are assisting with further investigations, while the hunt is on for two other individuals.
The two security guards had claimed that on Monday night they were attacked by a lone gunman who took away a bag containing cash and two handguns, outside the Demerara Bank, Le Ressouvenir, East Coast Demerara branch.
During the incident Pearce was shot in his left foot by the bandit who relieved him of the items just as he was about to make a night deposit at the bank.
Investigators were suspicious from the inception and immediately began questioning the security guards to ascertain the real circumstances surrounding the incident.
The men had told police that about 20:00 hours that night, they were making a night deposit at the bank, when they were attacked by a man armed with a firearm.
The perpetrator shot Pearce to his left foot and took away the night deposit bag which contained cash that had been collected from business places, and two .32 revolvers with 10 rounds, before escaping in a motor car driven by an accomplice.
Although, the guards were armed with another weapon, no one returned fire at the fleeing bandit, arousing the suspicions of investigators.
The injured Pearce was assisted by his partner Pyle and taken to the hospital, abandoning the company car outside the bank.
A senior police source said that investigators began grilling the guards and they eventually confessed to staging the robbery for their personal benefit.
“Imagine a guard taking a shot in his leg just to try to throw the police off. Now he has no money and will be heading to jail,” the police officer said.

Guns guns everywhere under the PNC administration as they had out firearm licence to their friends and family.

Two men shot by licenced firearm holder

Police have detained a licenced firearm holder who reportedly opened fire on a group of men, injuring two of them, during a confrontation yesterday.

The incident occurred in Kitty and while none of the wounded men received life threatening injuries, the licenced firearm holder got a sound thrashing and had to be rescued by ranks of the Guyana Police Force who were summoned to the scene.
This newspaper understands that the two wounded men were among a group who were offloading a container when the licenced firearm holder drove up and parked his vehicle in a manner that affected the men’s operation.
The group of men became annoyed when the licenced firearm holder refused to remove his vehicle despite repeated requests to do so.
Not realizing that the man was carrying a gun, the men swarmed the licence firearm holder and began raining cuffs and kicks about his body.
Kaieteur News was told that the licenced firearm holder whipped out his gun and fired shots at the men, hitting two of them in the process.
But before he could discharge any more rounds he was swarmed and overpowered by the angry mob and held down until the police arrived.
The two men as well as the licenced firearm holder were taken to the hospital for medical attention.
Investigations are continuing.

Four arrested in Berbice marijuana bust

May 27, 2016

Two armed robbery suspects escape from Providence Station

Police are trying to track down two robbery suspects who escaped from the Providence Police Station around 04.05 hrs yesterday, while only two female ranks and a male colleague were on duty.

Sources identified the escapees as Kevin Rose, 19, of Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara; and Shemar Moore, 20, of Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara.
Rose is said to be in custody for armed robbery, discharging a firearm, and possession of an unlicenced firearm. Moore was being held for armed robbery.
Kaieteur News understands that the prisoners escaped via a hole they made in one of the walls of the lockups.
At the time, a female lance corporal, a female detective constable, and one of their male colleagues were the only ranks at the station.
According to reports, one of the female ranks heard a strange noise in the vicinity of the lockups at the time of the escape.
On checking, she reportedly saw Rose exiting a hole in wall of the lockups. Shemar Moore, the other prisoner, reportedly then emerged and pushed the policewoman to the ground before he and Rose fled from the compound.
It is unclear whether the ranks have been placed under close arrest.
In July, 2009, Health Ministry arson suspects Kurt Thierens called, ‘Bage’ or ‘Glasses’, and Colin Jones, called “Bonny”, escaped from the Providence Police Station lockups, under circumstances that are still unclear.
A female police Lance Corporal was charged for negligently causing their escape. The charges were subsequently dismissed.