Two cars hijacked in one day… Child thrown out of hijacked car

 Dec 19, 2017  News 0 Comments

Acting Crime Chief,
Paul Williams Williams

Acting Crime Chief Paul Williams is advising drivers to make full use of tracking devices on their vehicles as carjacking across the country, especially in the city, seems to be spiraling out of control, with two cases reported on Sunday alone.
Williams made this comment during a recent interview with this newspaper. He explained that with such services, it will make it easier for the cops to locate stolen vehicles.
There is a local company that offers tracking services for vehicles which also assists in shutting down the engine if a car is stolen.
At around 22:20 hrs on Sunday, a gunman hijacked a blue Toyota Spacio vehicle at Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD) with a nine-year-old child sleeping in the back seat. Having recognised the presence of the child, the carjacker stopped about 100 feet from the scene and put her out before escaping.
According to information received, 43-year-old Samantha Williams of Lot 1053 Diamond had just reached home with her niece. She exited her vehicle, bearing registration number PVV 9496 to open her gate, when she noticed a male exiting a parked car.
Kaieteur News was informed that the individual walked towards her, pointing a gun, and entered the vehicle, driving off with her niece. His accomplice sped off in the vehicle they arrived in. Upon realizing the child was at the back, the suspect stopped the vehicle and allowed her to leave.
No one has been arrested as yet.
Also, around 17:50 hrs on Sunday, Taxi driver, Ramesh Persaud of Lot 4 Triumph, East Coast Demerara, had his Toyota Allion motorcar, bearing registration number HC 5024 stolen by two men, one of whom was armed with a gun, at Carmichael Street, North Cummingsburg.
The 53-year-old victim, who is attached to Kitty Cabs Taxi Service, was reportedly hired by a female who requested to be taken to Carmichael Street. On arriving there, the driver attempted to assist the passenger with her luggage when he was confronted by a male individual.
Kaieteur News was informed that he was ordered to step away from the vehicle after which the man and an accomplice entered his car and escaped via Middle Street. A report was made, but no one has been arrested.
Meanwhile, from January to July last, the Crime Chief said that 25 vehicles were hijacked, with Toyota Premio and Allion topping the list. He said that in most of these cases, the carjackers waited in close proximity to the victims’ homes and confronted them when they exited their car to open their gates.
He urged drivers to have someone looking out for them at home, so he or she will notice whether anyone is around the area, waiting to strike.

Lethem businessman remanded over illegal aircraft landing

 Dec 19, 2017  News 0 Comments

Remanded to prison: Hutshan Ramsingh

Three months after two men were charged for the construction of an illegal airstrip in Lethem, Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan yesterday remanded the prime suspect to prison after he was charged with the offence.

Hutshan Ramsingh called Seon Singh, a 44-year-old businessman of Tabatinga, Lethem, appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, and was not required to plead to the indictable offence.

It is alleged that between August 10 and August 13 at Mandacoro Island Savannah, Santa Fe, Lethem, Ramsingh conspired with persons known and unknown to facilitate the illegal landing of an aircraft on an unauthorized port of entry.

The accused was represented by Attorney-at-law Jerome Khan in association with Attorney-at-law Priyanka Ashley Sookraj.

The lawyer in his application to secure bail for his client told the court that Ramsingh is innocent of the charge. He added that his client was taken into police custody last August and was released on station bail.

The lawyer went on to tell the court that after his client returned to Lethem, armed men entered the man’s premises and being fearful for his life, he fled the jurisdiction for his safety.

The court heard that the accused contacted his attorney and he was told to surrender himself to the police, which he did.

The lawyer further stated that he believes “some high ranking police officials” are involved in the discovery of the illegal aircraft and airstrip, and they are not being investigated.

Police Prosecutor Arvin Moore objected to bail being granted to the accused, citing that he is a flight risk and if bail is granted it is likely that he would not return to court for the trial.

The prosecutor’s objection was upheld by the Magistrate and the accused was remanded to prison.  He was instructed to make his next court appearance on March 5 at the Lethem Magistrate’s Court.

Nathan Hamilton, 21, of Lot 107 Beverley Hills Drive, Lethem, and Wazim King, 37, were charged last September after they appeared before Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman.

It is alleged that the two individuals conspired with Ramsingh to build the illegal airstrip.

Both defendants are being represented by Jerome Khan. They were both released on $400,000 bail each and the trial is being conducted in the Lethem Magistrate’s Court.

According to reports, the illegal aircraft and airstrip were discovered by police about 10 miles from Santa Fe.

Kaieteur News understands that the airstrip was previously destroyed by the Guyana Defence Force (GDF). Hamilton and King were allegedly hired and paid to rehabilitate it.  It is believed that the plane and the airstrip, were being used for illegal activities.

Bandits invade supermarket

 Dec 19, 2017  News 0 Comments

• neighbour captured with booty

The supermarket which came under attack.

Five armed men on Saturday night invaded Akash Supermarket at Lot 57, Number 68 Village, and fired several shots sending customers and staff running for cover.

Persaud on Sunday told reporters that he was standing outside of the supermarket with another customer, who was actually an off duty police, when at approximately 20:30 hrs, the men barged into the business.

Kaieteur News was told that five perpetrators stormed the premises; one dealt a lash to the customer, unaware that he was a police officer, and ordered him and the owner to enter the supermarket.

The men then began to discharge rounds in the entire supermarket, before one took aim at the cashier.

Upon seeing this, the cashier ran for the upper flat and locked herself in one of the bedrooms, while three of the gunmen scaled the counter and followed her.

“They didn’t come in as customers they all came in at once and Akash was standing outside when one of them went out back and pointed the gun at him and brought him in the shop. They pushed him down one time and then they grabbed his phone,” a relative recounted.

The cashier, a female relative and her baby were hiding in the upper flat when the men gained entry via the stairs.

“They kept banging on the bedroom door where we were hiding, but like their time ran out,” a relative said. The men decided to ransack the home for valuables, but eventually abandoned their search and headed back downstairs.

The dreadlocked gunman firing shots at the cashier (Image from a surveillance camera)

By that time the other two gunmen had already bagged nearly $250,000 in cash, a quantity of phone cards and two cellular phones.

The men escaped after the ordeal, but the off-duty policeman and the owner gave chase in the cop’s private vehicle and managed to apprehend one of the suspects a street away with some of the valuables on his person.

According to reports, the gunman is currently hospitalized. The apprehended suspect is reportedly a neighbour of Persaud.

The father of the detained suspect was also arrested after several pieces of camouflage clothing were found at his house.

Persons identified one of the perpetrators as a “Rastaman”.

Security footage showed the men attired in camouflage clothing, backpacks and masks. The dreadlocked gunman is seen aiming in the cashier’s direction and discharging several rounds.

Investigations are in progress.

Doctor, nurse and prison officer robbed in home invasion

 Dec 19, 2017  News 0 Comments

One of the rooms that was ransacked during the robbery

A doctor, nurse and prison officer were blindfolded and robbed at gunpoint around 03:00 hrs yesterday inside their Lot 312 Lamaha Park, Georgetown home by three masked men, who threatened to kill them if they refused to hand over their valuables.

The bandits, two of whom were armed with guns, gained entry into the two-storey property by breaking a door in the bottom-flat of the house and held three women, a teenager and three younger children at gunpoint for one and a half hours.

The victims have been identified as Phenila Rogers, 46, a doctor; Olive Hamer, 50, a prison officer; Donelle Charles, 23, a nurse and 16-year-old Osben Scott, all of Lot 321 Lamaha Park. One of the gunmen punched the teen twice in the face.

The bandits made off with five phones, four tablets, one laptop and $28,000 in cash.

According to information received, at around 21:00 hrs on Sunday, Charles secured the house and she and her family retired to bed. At about 03:00 hrs yesterday, Charles reportedly heard a strange noise coming from the lower flat and got out of her bed to go and investigate. On her way to the lower flat, she reportedly saw the three gunmen making their way upstairs and ran back to her room.

Kaieteur News was informed that once inside her room, the nurse began screaming for help, but this did not scare the bandits away.

Late yesterday, the nurse’s mother, Olive Hamer recalled waking to her daughter’s screams. She said before she could have gotten out of her bedroom, she was confronted by a masked man who pointed a gun at her.

“He bring me and my son outside and he send the other two (bandits) to kick down my sister’s (Rogers’) bedroom’s door, but before they could have kicked the door, she came out, because she heard my daughter screaming,” Hamer said.

The woman added that the gunmen demanded that they get the screaming nurse out of the room before someone gets shot. “One of them took out the magazine and say he will shoot if they don’t get what they want.”

Once the nurse exited the room, the men then used clothes and blindfolded them, after which they began searching the house.

According to the prison officer, the men took her daughter into her room and demanded that she show them where she kept her cash and jewellery. Once they were satisfied with their loot, they left the same way they came.

Kaieteur News was informed that the men were in the yard for quite some time, trying to gain entry. They first used an old gate in the yard to climb to a window in the upper flat, but could not reach. They then broke a door to a vacant apartment in the bottom flat and broke another door that separates the apartment from the victims’ home.

Hamer said that the robbery is a major setback for her family and has left the children traumatized. Investigators visited the scene early yesterday and took fingerprints.

Two break out from Diamond lockups

 Dec 20, 2017  News 0 Comments

– murder charge pending for one

Police were last night hunting for two prisoners who staged a brazen escape from the Golden Grove Police Station (also known as the Diamond Police Station).
The suspects were identified as Wayne Gilbert, a murder suspect, of West La Penitence; and Derrol James.
Kaieteur News understands that the men escaped by smashing out some concrete blocks that are located near the wash-room area at around 19.00 hrs.
That area is reportedly situated at the back of the station. A large section of the compound is unfenced.
Police recently detained Gilbert and were reportedly preparing to charge him with a murder that was committed near the Stabroek Market last January. The victim was knifed to death during a robbery. Gilbert was also charged in 2012, and later jailed in May 2013, for armed robbery.
Gilbert and an accomplice had used a toy gun to commit the robbery.
He was wounded in 2015 by another inmate while incarcerated at the Georgetown Prisons.
Police said that the other escapee, Derrol James, is a suspect in at least one armed robbery.

Car thieves nabbed as cops vow to dismantle carjacking rings

 Dec 20, 2017  News 0 Comments

Police have vowed to dismantle the carjacking and car theft rings that have been operating brazenly around the country.
Around 23.00 hrs on Monday, police arrested two men who were in a car with no registration plates at Victoria, East Coast Demerara.
Police suspect that the vehicle was stolen. A third man was arrested in connection with the same vehicle.
Also on Monday, an ex-policeman was arrested after he allegedly tried to steal a car belonging to a plainclothes rank.
The rank had parked his car in Second Street, Alberttown, around 10.30 hrs and had gone into a store, leaving the key in the ignition. He came out of the store just as another man was driving away with his vehicle.
Luckily, the thief crashed into two parked vehicles and was arrested.
He was subsequently identified as a former policeman who resides at Red Road, Sophia.

Drug dealer nabbed at Berbice River check point

 Dec 20, 2017  News 0 Comments

As the police make use of their newly acquired vehicles and equipment and move to implement the Christmas Policing programme, a number of new initiatives have been put in place.
One such initiative is the setting up of a police checkpoint at the entrance of the eastern half of the Berbice River Bridge.
Already one man who was travelling in a car bound for Georgetown was nabbed with a quantity of narcotics which he tried to hide after noticing the police.
The man Lloyd John, 39, who gave his address as Wales, West Bank Demerara, appeared on Friday in the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Alex Moore on a charge of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.
According to the prosecution, around 05:55 hrs on 14 December the man was among five persons travelling in motor car HC 7959.
The vehicle was stopped and the passengers were asked to disembark. A black plastic bag was left under the left side back seat under where the accused was sitting. A further check of the bag revealed a black plastic bag wrapped with transparent scotch tape inside.
The contents were checked and what appeared to be leaves seeds and stems of the marijuana were found inside.
John denied ownership of the bag, but other passengers in the car identified him as the owner.
He was arrested and taken into custody where the contents were tested and weighed and found to be 483 grams of marijuana.
He was subsequently charged and placed on $175,000 bail despite the protestation of the prosecution. He was however taken to prison since he was unable to post the bail. His next court date is January 26.

Father turns over escapee son to cops as two others remain at large

 Dec 21, 2017  News 0 Comments

• policewoman under close arrest

Wayne Gilbert may have been thinking of the song “There’s no place like home for the holidays…,” when he escaped from the Golden Grove Police Station on Tuesday night.

But his father seemed to have been thinking otherwise. He promptly turned his son over to the police.

A police release stated that at around 23:00 hrs on Tuesday, Gilbert “was handed over to the police by his father, whom the officers applauded.

The 25-year-old of West La Penitence has since appeared in court on a murder charge.

Gilbert, Ivree Hooper, 25, of James Street, Albouystown, and Derrol James, 22, of Lot 131 Middle Walk, Buxton, escaped from the Golden Grove Police Station (also called Diamond Police Station) at around 18:00 hrs on Tuesday.

It is suspected that they used a piece of metal that they had broken off from the door of the lockups to smash a hole in the western wall, in an area near the washroom.

At the time, three ranks, including a female corporal were on duty. The corporal has since been placed under close arrest.

Gilbert was also charged in 2012, and later jailed in May 2013, for an armed robbery in which a toy gun was used. He was wounded in 2015 by another inmate while incarcerated at the Georgetown Prisons.

Derrol James is a suspect in a series of armed robbery, while Ivree Hooper was detained for simple larceny.

Non Pareil residents capture bandit who robbed MP’s daughter

 Dec 21, 2017  News 0 Comments

The captured bandit

It appears that residents are slowly starting their fightback against criminal elements.

On Tuesday night, bandits attacked a young, single mom of four at First Street, Section B, Non Pareil, East Coast Demerara. Neighbours, alerted to screams, managed to capture one of them.

The robbed woman just happens to be daughter of Opposition Parliamentarian, Gillian Burton-Persaud.

According to the Member of Parliament, her daughter was on her way home from work.

“They cuffed and kicked her before taking her handbag, cellphone and jewellery. Her screams for help attracted neighbours and family members who responded quickly and were able to catch him while the other escaped with the bag and other items,” she said in a Facebook post.

“Thanks to those who assisted, for the young mother is my daughter. Please share this post so others can be on the lookout for the others. It’s a gang that roves the area especially by the small bridge on Coldingen main road.”

The police, in the meantime, commended “the brave and courageous action of several public spirited citizens who responded to a call for help by a female resident of Section ‘B’ Non Pareil, East Coast Demerara”. The woman, the police said in a statement, was attacked and robbed of her handbag containing cash and a cellular phone.

The incident took place about 19:40 hrs at Dr. Carter Street. The robbers were armed with choppers.

The police said that the 35-year-old victim is a hairdresser by profession and was making her way home on foot.

Are any of the individuals apprehended by the police, DrugB ?

Dem police bais sleeping on de job. It become so common place that people don't expect police to help them, they have to fend to themselves.  

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