Crime

The Director of Public Prosecutions has asked the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) for more information about the shooting death of a suspected bandit  in mid-May by a policeman while the suspect was being transported to a station, a DPP Chambers official said Tuesday. The Police Force had dispatched the file to the DPP last week for advice on how  to ...

A retired police officer’s 9MM pistol and ammunition are among several items stolen from his car while he, a female police inspector and another woman went to Dakara Creek, Wismar, Linden, police said. The alleged theft occurred on Saturday between 15:40 hours and 17:00 hours. The 59-year old  ex police officer told investigators that he parked his car, bearing license ...

Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes is insisting that Gladston Henry Jr. was at home with family members watching a livestream of the autopsy that was being conducted on his brother, Isaiah Henry, and so was nowhere near the scene of Haresh Singh who was killed last year September. Previously,  Gladston Henry’s family members, relatives and Attorney Hughes had said that Gladston Henry ...

Six persons were Friday questioned about claims that one of the four persons, who have been charged with the murder of a 17-year old male last September, was nowhere near the scene of the crime, although police say their records contradict that alibi. Following up on its probe alleged attempts to pervert the course of justice, the Guyana Police Force ...

A man, who allegedly attempted to offer a more than $30,000 bribe to a police sergeant, after he was held for marijuana possession, now faces two charges, police said Friday. Police say that in addition to the drug charge,  the 25-year old man has been accused of attempting to pervert the course of justice. The offences were allegedly committed on ...

Hours after Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes and family members claimed that a murder accused was never at the crime scene, police said a review of its facts prove otherwise and they are now probing alleged attempts to make it difficult to determine who committed the crime. Glaston Henry is among four persons charged with the murder of 17-year old Haresh Singh ...

A Guyanese woman has pleaded guilty to a more than decade-long conspiracy to commit bank fraud, defrauding her employer, a Manhattan-based bank, by misappropriating approximately $1.7 million. Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Gangadai Rampersaud Azim, also known as Julie Azim, pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla. “As ...

Police on Wednesday arrested opposition parliamentarian Annette Ferguson for allegedly committing a Cybercrime offence by claiming a senior Guyana Defence Force (GDF) officer would be heading a killing squad. Investigators said the file has been dispatched to to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for legal advice. The Guyana Police Force said the senior GDF officer reported that Ms. Ferguson ...

Four persons were Tuesday charged with the murder of Haresh Singh at Number Three Village, West Coast Berbice last year September, police said Tuesday. The Guyana Police Force said it has “received legal advice as it relates to instituting charges against” the quartet. Four persons, who were arrested by ranks from the Guyana Police Force’s Major Crimes Unit, were charged ...

The Guyana Police Force’s Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) has been increasing its staff and working closely with the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to go after financial crimes, Attorney General Anil Nandlall announced on Thursday. “The Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) has recruited additional staff in the areas of law, forensic audit, accounting and investigations. Inter-agency cooperation between SOCU ...