Police last night issued bulletins for nine persons in relation to murder and the list included ex-policemen and Bramanand Nandalall who had been the subject of a major investigation by Canadian Mounties around 15 years ago and had been kidnapped at the height of the 2002-3 crime spree.
Aside from Bramanand Nandalall Rambrichie also known as `Bramma’, police also issued bulletins for Clayton Hutson of Lot 50 New Hope EBD; Mark De Abrue of Lot 66 Broad St, Charlestown; David Charran of Pomeroon, Essequibo; Ricardo Rodrigues whose last know address was listed as Lot 19, Belvoir Court, Bel Air Village; Lloyd Roberts of Lot 3667 North Ruimveldt; Dennis Edwards Jnr of Lot 341 North East La Penitence; John De Santos of Lot 66 Adelaide Street, Charlestown and ex-policeman Sean Belfield. Roberts, Rodrigues and Belfield are known associates of convicted drug lord Roger Khan.
In addition to murder, De Abrue is also being sought in connection with drug trafficking.
A tenth person Raymond Fraser of Lot 17 Reliance Settlement, East Canje is being sought in connection with a series of armed robberies.
Police did not specify which murders the nine were being sought for but the bulletins come in the wake of three bullet-riddled attacks which have claimed the lives of eight people and ramped up pressure on the police to solve the cases.
Several persons were yesterday held in connection with the three high-voltage shootings even as police seek a third man who was on the scene of Monday’s attack, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud revealed yesterday.
Persaud could not say how many persons were in custody or what led to their capture. He insisted though that those arrested are being questioned in all three shootings since they are related.
Up to press time last evening it was unclear how many persons were arrested in connection with the death of eight persons at Cummings Lodge, Broad Street and Stone Avenue. Ballistics tests have found that the same gun was used in the two latest shootings.
The Crime Chief also confirmed yesterday that investigators have information that a third man was with Patrick Goodluck and Godfrey Grootfaam, minutes before their car came under heavy gunfire but his identity is unknown.
“There is some evidence to suggest that there was a third man in that vehicle. We don’t know who it is though” he said.
This confirmation comes one day after a source revealed to Stabroek News that he had seen the now dead men and the mysterious man sitting in a car which was parked on the roadway near the entrance to the Redeemer Primary School.
When asked if the unidentified man may have been involved in the incident Persaud said “is he set it up, there is no way he could have escape…”
The source had explained to this newspaper on Wednesday that he urgently needed a call since his cell phone credit had expired while he was speaking to his spouse and he immediately wanted to re-establish contact with her. The man recalled that there were three men sitting in the car and he approached the driver (Goodluck) requesting a call. The driver, who was unknown to him, asked if he didn’t have money to buy a phone card and when he responded in the negative, the driver handed him a $1000 to buy one.
The man said that he left to buy the phone card at a store on Sheriff Street and later heard a volley of gunfire and immediately ducked for cover. He estimated that about ten minutes had elapsed from the time he got the money to when he heard the gunfire. When he left the area, the car was still parked at the spot and there was a motor cycle parked at the side of it.
Later when he went to the scene of the shooting he recalled, the third man who was sitting in the back seat of the car was missing. The man opined that it would have been impossible for him to escape the hail of bullets.
From all indications, the men came under attack on Royal Drive (a street opposite the entrance to the school). The gunmen’s car was parked on Stone Avenue, a short distance from where the source had left Goodluck’s car.
Three men exited the vehicle and unleashed a fusillade at the duo and at some point, Goodluck lost control of his vehicle and crashed into the school’s bridge. A fourth man was sitting in the gunmen’s vehicle.
According to the police’s version, the two men were in motor car PMM 9074, an AT 212 Carina driven by Goodluck, 39 a mason of Perth Village, Mahaicony when at Royal Drive and Stone Avenue, three suspects drove up in another car, exited and fired several shots at the victim’s vehicle, then drove away.
Goodluck along with Grootfaam called ‘Mosquito’, 29, of Canterbury Walk, Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara died almost instantly from multiple gunshots.
Goodluck was visiting his children in Royal Drive, when he received a call on his mobile phone minutes before he was killed. Relatives say that the call is very suspicious.
Hutson
On August 20 last businessman Hutson was remanded to prison after he was slapped with gun related offences and two traffic violations.
Hutson had appeared before Magistrate Chandra Sohan at the Sparendaam Magistrates’ Court, where he was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm, unlawful possession of ammunition, uttering a forged instrument (gun licence), failing to produce vehicle licence and talking on cellular phone was driving.
He pleaded guilty to the traffic offences but denied the others, this newspaper was told.
According to reports on the day in question at around 9:30pm, police ranks stopped motor car PMM 3042, which was being driven by Hutson, at a road block at Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara. The ranks searched the vehicle and Hutson and an unlicensed 9mm Glock pistol with 10 matching rounds were reportedly found. It was also discovered that Hutson was unlicensed to drive a motor car and he subsequently produced a gun license which was allegedly forged.
Hutson was expected to return to court on September 2.
In 2008, police had issued wanted bulletin for the businessman and two other men for questioning into the discovery of high-powered arms and ammunition at a Regent Street house.
He subsequently turned himself in accompanied by his lawyer but was released on bail several days later and was never charged.
In 2007 Hutson’s name had surfaced when Trinidadian David ‘Buffy’ Millard was found hiding out in a house at Nandy Park. Millard had reportedly told investigators that he was working for Hutson who could not be found at the time.
Reports indicated that Millard was a bodyguard of Hutson and was at one time the general manager of his Lombard Street business. This business was also searched during the joint services’ many raids last year. The joint services had also targeted a number of locations associated with Hutson following Millard’s arrest.
Jamaat al Muslimeen member Millard had been on the run from the authorities in Trinidad since 2003 and it is believed that he was in Guyana since that time. He was wanted in connection with the murder of Jilla Bowen and the attempted murder of Rasheed and Adel Ghany on June 4, 2003 at MovieTowne in Trinidad. He was acquitted of the charges during his court trial last year.
On January 14 2007 police issued wanted bulletins for Hutson and several other men among them ex-policeman Ricardo Rodrigues, whose name had surfaced in 2006 when the police had issued bulletins for businessman, Roger Khan, Gerald Pereira and Paul Rodrigues. Khan and Paul Rodrigues along Lloyd Roberts were later caught in Suriname during a drug bust. Four days after the bulletin was issued for Hutson the Police Force stated in a press release that three persons listed in the wanted bulletin were arrested. Hutson was one of the three persons. The other persons were Danesh ‘Sunil’ Persaud and Sheldon Chase.
In May 2006 the joint services had raided a property which is said to be connected to the businessman and several items were found. Six persons were arrested during the search but Hutson was not among them.
Roberts and Belfield
Both Lloyd Roberts and Sean Belfield, former policemen, were sought over the 2009 murders of Romeo De Agrella and Clint De Agrella.
The decomposing remains of the De Agrellas of Grant Strong Hope, Lower Pomeroon River, were found on March 23, 2009 days after they failed to return home. Post-mortem examinations revealed that they died from multiple gunshot wounds.
While Belfield was never arrested Roberts was charged with the murders but the charge was discharged earlier this year and he was immediately re-arrested for questioning into the murders of political activist Ronald Waddell and former boxing coach Donald Allison.
Waddell was murdered on January 31, 2006 outside his Subryanville home. During the case of confessed narcotics trafficker Roger Khan, currently serving three concurrent 15 year sentences, it was said that he [Khan] ordered the execution of Waddell and Donald Allison.
In April 2008 Belfield was said to be an auto sales company employee when he appeared in the Magistrate’s Court for allegedly stealing a car worth $2.8 million and was later placed on a bond to keep the peace for two years. Belfield, whose address was given as 83 Garnett Street, Kitty had pleaded not guilty to the charge of robbery. It was alleged that on April 3 Belfield robbed Marlon Blake of motor vehicle PKK 3481.
In June 2006, both Roberts and Belfield were held in neighbouring Suriname after a cocaine bust along. They were held along with now convicted drug trafficker Roger Khan and former policemen Paul Rodrigues. Khan was expelled from that country and intercepted by US officials en route to Guyana while 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.
Belfield is no stranger to the public and he became known back in December 2002 when he, Roger 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”, he said.
Nandalall
Nandalall was charged in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court in May 1996 with conspiracy to traffic in narcotics. He was charged jointly with the late Farouk Razac. A year later Nandalall was committed to stand trial in the High Court. The case which was the result of a joint probe by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Guyana Police Force eventually fell apart.
On October 28, 2002, Nandalall was kidnapped, reportedly by the Mash Day prison escapees. He later managed to flee from his captives and his flight triggered killings around the city and the deaths of some of the escapees. Michael Singh, 28, a US citizen, who was the businessman’s guard, was found executed in Le Repentir cemetery on the same date. Prior to the discovery of Singh’s body, a man identified as prison escapee Dale Moore and another man were shot dead in Lamaha Gardens. Almost simultaneously, businessman Frank Solomon, other prison escapee Mark Fraser and city businessman Lancelot Roach were gunned down in separate cars on the East Coast Demerara. Fraser and Roach were in the latter’s car.
The police only claimed responsibility for the deaths of Moore and the other man shot in Lamaha Gardens, but the gunmen in the East Coast Demerara and Le Repentir executions remain anonymous to this day.
In January 2007 police had issued wanted bulletins for ex-policeman Ricardo Rodrigues, Carlston Harris, a.k.a. “Redman” or “Tombo”, Elecemar Cassino Eugenio, Danesh Persaud, a.k.a. “Sunil”, Noel Hill, a.k.a “Yankee”, and Clayton Hutson for questioning in connection with a variety of matters. While Hutson surrendered himself and was later released on bail by the High Court Rodrigues failed to go into the police.
A wanted bulletin was also issued for Rodrigues during 2006 along with many others and he had later turned himself into the police and was subsequently charged with being in possession of military gear, a charge which was subsequently dismissed.
And in May 2009 the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit had issued a wanted bulletin for Dennis Edwards of 341, North East La Penitence.
Just last month the police issued a wanted bulletin for Raymond Fraser, who they said was being sought for questioning in relation to a series of armed robberies and the recent cache of arms found in Berbice, which included two AK 47 rifles stolen from the Guyana Defence Force.
Fraser’s last known address was given as Lot 17 Reliance Settlement East Canje, Berbice. He is 26-years-old; slim built and brown in complexion.
In June 2008 Fraser was among four men charged with three counts of robbery under arms and one count of possession of ammunition, all of whom at the time were remanded to prison when they appeared before Magistrate Chandra Sohan at the New Amsterdam Court.
De Abrue
De Abrue who is the proprietor of Marco Trading had appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court last December charged with behaving disorderly at the scene of the Roopa’s bar shooting that left one man dead and another wounded.
His lawyer Mark Waldron had told the court that around 3 am on the day of the shooting De Abrue received a call informing him that his nephew and his friend had been shot. He noted that his client and his father then rushed to the scene of the incident where they saw two bodies lying on the ground and a man with a gun over one of the bodies about to kick it. The two men lying on the ground were Hewley Nicholas Barker and Mark Caesar called `Lil Mark’.
On seeing this De Abrue because angry and openly voiced his displeasure over the situation. The man, the lawyer said, became even more infuriated when the police refused to take the two injured persons to the hospital.
Barker succumbed to the injuries he sustained while Caesar was admitted to the Georgetown Hospital, where he spent several days.
Caesar was gunned last week while sitting on a fire hydrant eating fried chicken. Based on all accounts, a gunman sitting in the back seat of a car, riddled, the St. Stephens street resident with bullets.
Caesar and De Abrue were said to be good friends.
