Trinidad: Well-known Sea Lots businessman detained for fishermen’s murders

(Trinidad Guardian) A Sea Lots man who is well known to the po­lice has been de­tained for ques­tion­ing in the mur­der of the five Car­li Bay fish­er­men who were beat­en and thrown over­board on Ju­ly 22.

Se­nior po­lice sources say the man was de­tained by homi­cide of­fi­cers from the Cen­tral di­vi­sion for ques­tion­ing some­time this morn­ing.

 
Last week 27-year-old Ka­reem Stanis­claus was charged with the mur­ders of fish­er­men Hem­raj Sook­nanan,18, Bran­don Kissoon, 21, Shi­va Ramdeo, 27, Anand Ram­per­sad,39 and Leslie De Boulet.

It was al­leged he, along with oth­er peo­ple, mur­dered the fish­er­men.

Stanis­claus was al­so charged with the at­tempt­ed mur­der of Bri­an Seemu­n­gal and Rob­bie Jag­ger­nauth, and re­mand­ed in cus­tody.

He was al­so joint­ly charged with six counts of rob­bery with vi­o­lence along with Shaquille Roberts, and two women – Mya Bowrin and Ly­ola John.

Both women were grant­ed $100,000 bail when they ap­peared in court last week, while Roberts was re­mand­ed in cus­tody pend­ing trac­ing of his crim­i­nal records.