An East Coast man appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with committing several armed robberies on fishermen in the Corentyne River.
According to a police press release, Aleen Mohamed called ‘Knights’ of Mon Repos, ECD and Number 74 Village, Corentyne, was charged with six counts of robbery under arms when he appeared before a magistrate at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
Mohamed was remanded to prison and will make another court appearance on January 3, next year, the release said.
Mohamed was arrested two Fridays ago by police in the Corentyne area and was transported to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Eve Leary where he was placed on an ID parade. There has been an upsurge in piracy in the Corentyne area recently with the largest attack coming earlier this month when fifteen boats from the Number 66 Fish Complex were attacked and the crew members were beaten and robbed of a quantity of fish glue, fish, engine coils and leads.
On Sunday, pirates attacked the captain and five crew members of a fishing vessel in Suriname’s waters around 6 pm carting off over $1M.
