-Two others in custody
Police yesterday issued an arrest warrant for a former bodyguard of drug trafficker Roger Khan in connection with the grisly slaying of two men in the North West District in March.
The warrant identified former policeman Sean Belfield, called ‘Buck-up,’ as being wanted in connection with the murders of Romeo De Agrella, 41 and Clint De Agrella, 20, whose bodies were found with gunshot wounds at the ‘Iron Punt’ Foreshore, North West District.
Stabroek News understands that two other men, including another close associate of Khan, are in police custody and will be charged shortly with the murders.
According to police, Belfield is 29, 5’7”, and is dark in complexion. He is self-employed and his last known addresses are Lot 83 Garnett Street, Newtown, Kitty; Lot 23 Queen Street, Kitty and Henrietta, Essequibo Coast.
The decomposing remains of the De Agrellas, of Grant Strong, Hope, Lower Pomeroon River, were found days after they failed to return home. A post-mortem examination revealed that they died from multiple gunshot wounds.
Crime Chief Seelall Persaud had told Stabroek News that the men’s murders were drug-related.
Police, in a statement, had said that investigations have revealed that the victims had left Venezuela and after not returning as expected they were reported as missing on March 22. The statement said their bodies were found with gunshot wounds while their boat bore bullet holes. It was recovered without the outboard motor engine. The boat was found by the occupants of a passing passenger vessel, overturned in the Waini River. It was subsequently pulled ashore.
Belfield is no stranger to the public and he became known back in December 2002 when he, Khan and Haroon Yahya were held after the discovery of sophisticated electronic surveillance equipment and a high powered arms cache in a pick-up at Good Hope, East Coast Demerara.
At the time of their arrest they had told law enforcement officials that they were in search of Shawn Brown and the other prison escapees who had fled the Camp Street prison earlier that year. The trio was later charged with possession of arms and ammunition but the case against them was subsequently dismissed by the late magistrate Jerrick Stephney at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court the following year.
In February 2006, Belfield’s then four-year-old daughter, Mackenzie ‘Tiffany’ Belfield, had been reportedly kidnapped from the Kingston Nursery School. The child was later returned to her parents’ residence at 105 Lamaha Gardens, Georgetown, by unknown persons in a motor vehicle. A few days later, then Commissioner of Police, Winston Felix at a press conference labelled the kidnapping as being staged. “It was a staged kidnapping; I am making a clear statement.
There is an abundance of material before us which suggests that, and they can come out and attack me if they want, but what is on the ground here is firmly set,” Felix said.
In June that same year, Belfield was held along with Khan and former policemen Paul Rodrigues and Lloyd Roberts in neighbouring Suriname, after a cocaine bust. Khan was expelled from that country and intercepted by US officials en route to Guyana, Belfield and the others remained in Suriname for an extended period.
They were later deported to Guyana and pleaded guilty on the charge of illegal departure and were fined $20,000 each at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court. They were accused of departing by sea between June 15 and 16, 2006 at Springlands, Corentyne from a port not authorised for such departures.
Anyone with information that could lead to the arrest of Belfield is asked to contact the police on 225-6411, 225-2700, 226-2917, 225-8196, 226-1333, 225-2722 or 911 or the nearest police station.