Roger Bunbury also known as ‘Don Dick’ who the police released on Wednesday after holding him for nine days, is calling on the force to quit harassing him and stop referring to him as one of Guyana’s most wanted men.
Since no charges were laid against him and he was set free without even having to post station bail, Bunbury said, the police clearly have nothing on him. He said they picked him up and released information to the press, which implicated him in a number of robberies and a murder, but could find nothing with which to charge him.
Minutes after he was released from custody at Brickdam police station, Bunbury came to Stabroek News alleging police harassment. While he was in custody, he said, the police rang nearly every station to see if there was something on him and came up with two incidents — one at Kitty and another at Brickdam. But in the end there was no evidence to support the claims.
“I was detained for nine days and they had nothing on me. They held me, fingerprinted me and tried all manner of things but found nothing then they let me go. The police have to stop this because I change and now earning a honest dollar,” Bunbury stated.
The man said he had served a two-year sentence back in 2003 for break and enter and larceny. He said the police had issued a wanted bulletin for him around that time which fingered him in a series of robberies and murders but when he turned himself in, they put him away for the break and enter and larceny which had been tried in his absence.
After serving two years, he said, he turned his life around. Bunbury said he cleaned drains for a number of years earning an honest living, and recently joined a security firm. The man said he is juggling two jobs, has a fixed place of abode in Sophia and is supporting a child.
Bunbury said the image the police are painting of him as a criminal with a long track record continues to damage his character. He said the security firm he is employed with was aware of his past sentence but got alarmed when reports in the press named him as one of the most wanted men who had been on the run for the past five years.
The man said he has not been hiding nor evading the police since he was released from prison in December 2005. He said the police saw him on several occasions cleaning drains in Sophia and never made any attempt to arrest him.
On the day he was arrested, he said, the police confronted him with an allegation of threatening behaviour and took him into custody. After he enquired about the virtual complainant in the matter the police informed him he was wanted for robberies and a murder and held him for nine days.
Bunbury said the police can easily find him in C’ Field Sophia where he is living if they have anything against him but that they need to stop sending wrong messages to the public and staining his name.
The police had said Bunbury was among a list of 42 most wanted men for whom wanted bulletins were issued. Among others on the list were the five from the February 23, 2002 jailbreak, Dale Moore, Troy Dick, Shawn Brown, Andrew Douglas and Mark Fraser.
