Commander of Police E&F Division, Assistant Commissioner David Ramnarine confirmed at 8 pm that 30 minutes earlier police found Alicia McAlister who was reportedly abducted last night.
McAlister, he reported, was dumped from a minibus at a Linden location and is in a weakened state. After police were informed by a telephone call the female was picked up from the location.
She is currently at the Linden Hospital in a weakened state, Ramnarine said.
Police around 7.15 pm issued the following press release on the matter:
“Acting on a report made to ranks on a police patrol about 02:00hrs today Sunday October 24, 2010, ranks in Division “E&F’ Linden, the Joint Services and members of the Community have mounted a massive search to find a young girl who reportedly went missing about 20:00hrs yesterday Saturday October 23, 2010 in Linden.
“It has so far been ascertained from a brother of Alicia McAllister age 16 years of Block 22 Wisroc, that by way of a text message, she told him that she was on her way from church walking, when she was abducted.
“Several vehicles owned by residents in the area, are involved in the search.”
Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee, in an interview with the National Communications Network (NCN) today, confirmed that he’d received a report about three females being kidnapped.
One of the females, Rohee told NCN, he’d been informed, had a cellular phone in her possession and managed to make contact with a relative. Available information, he said, suggests that two of the females are in a “drugged” state.
A search, he further reported, has since been launched but up to early this evening the females were still to be found.
When contacted by Stabroek News shortly before 6.30pm Rohee declined to comment.
