Crime

The cell phone tracker on a stolen phone has led to the arrest of three of four men who staged a multimillion dollar robbery committed on a lawyer and seven businessmen early Wednesday morning at La Bonne Intention (LBI), East Coast Demerara, police said. The eight victims told police that the bandits carted off a total of GY$8,162,000 in items ...

A suspected bandit was arrested late Tuesday night but two of his accomplices escaped after a shootout with police on La Grange Public Road, West Bank Demerara where they minutes earlier robbed a resident of Campbellville, Georgetown, police said. The Guyana Police Force said one of the suspects opened fire on a patrol that responded to a report of an ...

A woman has been arrested in connection with the alleged discovery of 540 grammes of cocaine in a parcel containing a Hindu havan kund. The estimated street value is about US$2,500 to US$2,700 but the head of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) said it would be worth more in the United Kingdom. CANU said the narcotic was in the parcel with ...

The driver of a car has admitted to hitting down Reonol “Ram” Williams and dumping the body after he realised that the man was unresponsive, the Head of the Police Force’s Criminal Investigations Department, Wendell Blanhum said Tuesday night. “The suspect has confessed that he was the driver of the motorcar when it struck down Reonol Williams,” Mr. Blanhum told ...

The man, who allegedly killed his wife,  has been charged with murder. Police say Clarence Farley was read the indictable offence when he appeared in court on Monday before Magistrate Faith Mc Gusty. He was remanded to prison until June 27. He is accused of the murder of Carnegie School of Home Economics teacher, Omega Ault, at their home at ...

Police have arrested four persons who allegedly murdered a security guard in the vicinity of the Brickdam Secondary School, Georgetown, the Guyana Police Force said. The woman has been identified as 21-year old Carol Davidson who lived at East La Penitence Squatting Area. She was lashed several times and stabbed to her left side chest, police said. Police say they ...

Three persons were arrested on Thursday in connection with two separate busts totalling 11 kilogrammes of marijuana and several round of ammunition, the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) said. That agency said 47-year old Raymond Tinnis, who was the lone occupant of a car, was arrested on the Mahaica Public Road for allegedly being in possession of 9.8 kilogrammes of marijuana. ...

The prime suspect in the killing of his wife at their Crane Village, West Coast Demerara home was Thursday night arrested at a hotel in Corriverton, Berbice, the Guyana Police Force said. Forty-year old Clarence Farley was, according to police, arrested at Malinmar Hotel, Number 78 Village, Corriverton. He was wanted in connection with the killing of his wife, Omega ...

An operator at Toolsie Persaud’s logging company at Tiger Creek, Essequibo River area was shot dead by a co-worker as a result of an accusation between the assailant and another man over claims of one of them “looking” at his wife, the Guyana Police Force said. Dead is 29-year old Rohit Hansraj called ‘Master’, of Wakenaam, an island on the ...

As police on Monday continued their manhunt for a man, who is the prime suspect in the death of his wife, an autopsy showed that she was battered to the head. Police say Government Pathologist Dr Nehaul Singh has found that 39-year old Omega Ault died as a result of brain hemorrhage and multiple blunt trauma to the head. The ...