By News Source Guyana on January 24, 2019
Crime, News
A Court today freed Super Biker, Stephen Vieira and Car Racer, Nazim Gafoor of cocaine trafficking and possession charges. However, the other two accused in the 187-pound cocaine in timber case, businessman Tazim Gafoor and his accomplice GRA Enforcement Officer, Sherwayne DeAbreau were convicted and sentenced to five years in jail. In addition to the […]
By News Source Guyana on January 24, 2019
Crime, News
A 31-year-old Assistant Superintendent of Police was shackled at the hands and feet today as he was taken to Court to face a rape charge. The Police officer, Seecharran Singh, was today charged with the rape of a 13-year-old girl. It is alleged that between the 17th and 18th June 2018, the man engaged in […]
By News Source Guyana on January 23, 2019
Crime, News
One of the suspects in last night’s gunning down of security officer, Kelvin Walters, at McDoom , has been arrested. The suspect has been identified 25-year-old Devon Williams of Albouystown. He was arrested at the Woodlands Hospital last evening, where he had gone to seek medical attention for a broken left pelvis. Investigators were alerted […]
By News Source Guyana on January 22, 2019
Crime, News
Police investigators are on the hunt for at least two armed men who shot a young driver dead on the Eccles Public Road this evening. The dead man has been identified as 35-year-old Kelvin Walters. He was rushed to the Georgetown Hospital with a gunshot wound to the face. Doctors pronounced him dead on arrival. […]
By News Source Guyana on January 22, 2019
Crime
A former member of the Guyana Police Force, who found himself on the other side of the law, will be spending the next four years in jail after being found guilty of cocaine trafficking. Ex-policeman Louis Dublin was today sentenced by Magistrate Leron Daly on the completion of the trial. He was arrested and charged […]
By News Source Guyana on January 21, 2019
Crime, News
Two members of the deadly Venezuelan Sindicato Gang, who were caught in Guyana with grenades, have been remanded to prison. The two Venezuelan men, Daniel Alberto and Luis Alfredo Vasquez Gonzales, stood before Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court this morning and did not have much to say as the charge was read […]
By News Source Guyana on January 21, 2019
Crime, News
Police investigators are on the hunt for a Pike Street, Sophia man, who is wanted for the stabbing death of a businessman from D’ Field, Sophia. The dead man has been identified as 48-year-old, Godfrey Phillips. A police statement said Phillips was locking up his shop just before midnight on Sunday, when he noticed that […]
By News Source Guyana on January 16, 2019
Crime, News
After being charged previously with five counts trafficking in persons, an alleged recruiter and employer, Fiona Hopkinson, found herself back in Court today to face four additional trafficking charges. It alleged that between August and October last year, Hopkinson engaged in the trafficking of persons, by “procuring” four vulnerable Venezuelan Nationals for the purpose of […]
By News Source Guyana on January 16, 2019
Crime, News
22-year-old, Lisa Halley will have to stand a High Court trial for the stabbing death of her husband. She will face the manslaughter charge before a Judge and Jury. The incident took place back in 2017 and today Magistrate Leron Daly ruled that a strong enough case had been made out against the woman for […]
By News Source Guyana on January 15, 2019
Crime, News
Corentyne resident, 18-year-old Keeran Jeenarine was today remanded to jail for the old year’s night murder of brothers, Harricharran and Premcharran Samaroo. One of the brothers was shot to his face while the other was beaten to death during a home invasion and robbery that also saw their mother and another elderly relative being beaten […]