Crime

A New York man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role in an illegal pump-and-dump stock manipulation scheme. Acting U.S. Attorney Charles J. Kovats made the announcement after Senior U.S. District Judge David S. Doty sentenced the defendant, the United States Department of Justice said Thursday night. According to court documents, Christopher James Rajkaran, 36, of ...

A 19-year-old man, who was allegedly stabbed by his stepfather during a domestic altercation with his mother,  died on Thursday at the Infectious Disease ‘COVID’ Hospital, police said. He has been identified as Isaiah Edwards of East La Penitence Squatting Area, Georgetown. Police said that the man was stabbed to his right hip by his stepfather at about 6:30 Wednesday ...

A woman was Thursday afternoon stabbed to death by her ex-partner at her mother’s home in ‘C’ Field, Sophia, Greater Georgetown, the Guyana Police Force said. Dead is 28-year-old Loretta Simon of Cooper Street, Albouystown, Georgetown. The woman was stabbed at about 1 pm. Police say that the woman allegedly met her demise at the hands of her ex-partner who ...

A Jamaican man was Wednesday in custody after  he was allegedly caught on a half-acre marijuana farm at Nabaclis, East Coast Demerara. The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) said that during the operation on Tuesday, a shotgun, several types of ammunition, a crossbow and several arrows were also seized at the location. He has been identified as 46-year old Winston Thompson. ...

A national of the Dominican Republic was Friday jailed for four years and fined GY$14.4 million after he pleaded guilty to being in possession of 16 kilogrammes of marijuana aboard the Panamanian-registered cement vessel, Diego, the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) said Saturday. He is 56-year-old Fredy Diaz Cabrera, a Dominican Republic Engineer of Lot 151, Third Street Street, Montrose, East ...

Guyanese police say that they have launched a probe into the seizure of the ammunition aboard the purportedly Guyana-flagged vessel in Dakar, Senegal. Police say they are working with Regional and International Law Enforcement agencies and has alerted the INTERPOL General Secretariat. Guyanese police say they want INTERPOL to assist with the questioning of one Suneil Kumar, Chief Executive Officer ...

A cargo ship carrying three shipping containers laden with US$5 million worth of ammunition is not registered in Guyana and is not due here, the Maritime Administration (MARAD) said Thursday night. “The vessel in question is not contained in the local ships’ registry and it is believed that registration documents were issued by International Maritime Safety Agency of Guyana (IMSAG), ...

A quantity of marijuana was Wednesday found aboard a Panama-registered cement carrier cargo vessel, and so far the captain and other officers have been detained for investigations, the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit said. CANU said that several parcels of  marijuana – a foreign type known as ” creepy “- with a total weight of 16.046 kilogrammes (36 pounds), with a local ...

Police early Wednesday morning cleared the bridge at Dartmouth Public Road, Essequibo Coast of debris a day after protesters blocked the thoroughfare to protest the decision to charge a policeman with manslaughter of businessman Orin Boston. Police and fire fighters cleared the bridge at about 3:30 AM during a pre-dawn operation  in which about 20 protesters scampered away as firefighters ...

Opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) parliamentarian Sherod Duncan was Thursday released on $100,000 station bail as part of an ongoing probe into a cybercrime offence he alleged committed against an official of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). Attorney-at-Law, Amanza Walton-Desir earlier Thursday said Duncan’s arrest from his home following a report by GECOM’s Information Technology (IT) ...