Crime

NEW YORK — Multiple people were shot at New York City’s West Indian American Day Parade in Brooklyn on Monday, police said. Five people were wounded when a gunman in Crown Heights “fired his weapon numerous times into a crowd,” NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell said, according to a CBS report. Two of the shooting victims were in critical condition. The others ...

Guyanese policeman was prosecution’s witness FOX NEWS:-A New York bank manager sentenced last week to 9.5 years behind bars for a foiled murder-for-hire scheme against her brother-in-law allegedly told the would-be hitman that “rat poison can do a great job.” Reshma Massarone, a 40-year-old branch manager at Mid-Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union, plotted to kill her sister’s husband over Facebook Messenger between ...

A joint operation between the United States’ (US’) Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Guyana’s Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) led to the discovery of almost US$200 million worth of 4.4 tonnes of cocaine, which was destined for Europe, from a number of pits near an illegal airstrip in Matthews Ridge. “The operation was driven by intelligence regarding illegal flights into Guyana ...

About 4.4 tonnes of cocaine valued US$194 million have been unearthed from ‘bunkers’ at Matthew’s Ridge, Region One (Barima-Waini), the Head of Guyana’s Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) James Singh said Sunday. Mr Singh said two rifles were als0 found with the cocaine in an underground storage area that was covered with wood and vegetation near an illegal airstrip about 20 ...

Retired Assistant Police Commissioner, Paul Slowe on Thursday deemed as a “smear campaign” the Guyana Police Force’s (GPF’s) claim that he again allegedly violated the Sexual Offences Act against a woman with whom he has a court case. “It’s all part of their smear campaign,” he told Demerara Waves Online News. Mr Slowe has been highly and openly critical of ...

A total of two persons have succumbed to gunshot injuries they received early Saturday morning outside V’s Delight, Lodge, Georgetown where there was an All Black party, the Guyana Police Force said Sunday. Police said Lawrence ‘Boy-Boy’ Wayne died Sunday morning at about 9 hours. ‘Boy-Boy’ was not named in two earlier police bulletins, and it was unclear when he was ...

The motorcar, which was allegedly used in an early Saturday morning drive-by shooting that left one person dead and six others injured, was found later in the day in South Ruimveldt, police said. At about 9:30 Saturday morning, detectives said they went to Manatee Place, South Ruimveldt Georgetown, where they observed a black Toyota Premio motorcar, without number plate, parked ...

Public Works Minister, Deodat Indar has slapped opposition-aligned social media commentators, Sherod Duncan and Melissa Atwell with a GY$50 million defamation lawsuit. Mr Indar is also asking the High Court to order the duo to remove all false and defamatory posts from their Facebook pages, in addition to an injunction restraining them from publishing such defamatory words. Through his lawyer, ...

A man was killed and five others were injured during a drive-by shooting on Joseph Pollydore Street (D’Urban Street), Lodge early Saturday morning. Dead is Anthony Havescombe, 40, a vendor of South Ruimveldt. Police said he succumbed to multiple gunshot injuries. The injured include former policeman, Teon “Spoil Child” Allen, 38, of Sophia who has had several brushes with the ...

A man, who allegedly struck down and killed a Jamaican man in December 2019 in Queens, New York, was caught at a horse race meet in Guyana and taken back to the United States (US) where he was refused bail on Friday, officials and news reports said. Head of the Guyana Police Force’s Criminal Investigations Department, Assistant Commissioner Wendell Blanhum ...